South China Morning Post
What Hong Kong cinema can take away from a popular Chinese war film
In late August, I took my parents to see Once Upon a Time in the Middle East in their small-town cinema on the mainland. Built around an unnamed conflict widely understood to be the US-led Iraq war, the film has become the kind of…
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