Films | Dust to Dust

Name: Films | Dust to Dust
Start: 2024-10-20T14:00:00-04:00
Location: 1050 Independence Ave SW, Washington D.C., DC, United States, Washington, District of Columbia 20560

Schedule

Sun Oct 20 2024 at 02:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1050 Independence Ave SW, Washington D.C., DC, United States, Washington, District of Columbia 20560 | Washington, DC

Cost: Free; registration recommended.
Jonathan Li’s crime thriller is based on the true story of a 1995 bank heist that was the largest in China’s history. Three of the robbers were caught, but the two masterminds, cousins Chen Xinwen (Da Peng) and Chen Xin’nian (Sunny Sun), were tipped off and escaped the country to work incognito in a jade quarry. Twenty-one years later, retired cop Wang Shouyue (Lam Ka-tung), who worked the case, catches a glimpse of what he thinks is one of the escaped robbers in the background of a news report, and he decides to investigate. The film’s suspenseful cat-and-mouse plot is given depth by its exploration of the characters’ psyches and is driven by several remarkable performances, particularly Da Peng as a fugitive feeling the pressure of living a secret life. It’s no wonder this smash hit spent nearly three weeks atop the Chinese box office.
(Dir.: Jonathan Li, Hong Kong, 2023, 112 min., DCP, Mandarin and Cantonese with English subtitles)
Accessibility: The public elevator in the West Building (Freer Gallery of Art) is out of service, so your route to the event location may take a few more minutes than usual. Use the accessible entrance at the corner of Independence Avenue and 12th Street SW, and follow the directions when you arrive. Get more accessibility details.
Films are shown in the 300-seat Meyer Auditorium. Preregistration (up to four tickets per person per film) is encouraged but not required. Seating is available on a first–come, first served basis for patrons without tickets.
Image courtesy of One Cool Pictures