Le début de la fin du cinéma de Hong Kong

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Le début de la fin du cinéma de Hong Kong

Message par bluesoul » mer. août 25, 2021 8:44 am

Tout est dans le titre du sujet.

Pour plus de details, la censure chinoise deboule a Hong-Kong et va aller jusqu'a eplucher les films deja sortis. A mon sense, ca va saigner dans le catalogue de films de genre (genre: films de gangsters et sur la corruption de la police ou du monde politique).

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... orship-law

En balises spoilers pour la posterite.
Spoiler : :
Hong Kong to scour old films for subversive themes under new censorship law
Movies deemed a security threat can bring penalties of up to three years’ jail under stricter law that also covers previously approved titles

Hong Kong will scrutinise past films for national security breaches under a tough new censorship law in the latest blow to the city’s political and artistic freedoms.

Authorities announced in June that the financial hub’s censorship board would check any future films for content that breached the security law. But on Tuesday they unveiled a new, hardened censorship law that would also cover any titles that had previously been given a green light.

“Any film for public exhibition, past, present and future, will need to get approval,” the commerce secretary, Edward Yau, said.

Authorities have embarked on a sweeping crackdown to root out Beijing’s critics after democracy protests convulsed the financial hub two years ago. A new, China-imposed security law and an official campaign dubbed “Patriots rule Hong Kong” has since criminalised much dissent and strangled the democracy movement.

The security law bans anything authorities deem to be secession, subversion, terrorism or collusion with foreign forces.

Almost all those arrested under the law have been democracy activists. A legislative brief given to reporters on Tuesday mentioned recent documentaries that “glorified” or “incited” protests.

The new law must be approved by the city’s legislature – a near certainty, given it has been purged of any opposition over the past year.

The maximum sentence for showing illegal films will be increased to up to three years’ jail and a HK$1m ($130,000) fine.

Titles deemed a national security risk by censors will not be able to appeal via the usual channels. Instead, they will have to launch a judicial review in Hong Kong’s courts, a long and costly legal procedure.

Authorities can also revoke viewing licences of venues that show titles deemed “contrary to the interests of national security”.

The law will bring Hong Kong much closer to the Chinese mainland, where films are rigorously vetted and only a handful of western movies or documentaries see a commercial release each year.

Hong Kong historically boasted a thriving film scene and for much of the latter half of the last century, Cantonese cinema was world class.

The city still maintains some key studios, a handful of lauded directors and a thriving indie scene, but new political red lines are being drawn each month.

The announcement of Tuesday’s new censorship law came as Nicole Kidman is filming an Amazon-funded series in the city based on a book about the gilded lives of the city’s “expats”.

Authorities allowed Kidman and her film crew to skip Covid quarantine, sparking public anger last week.
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