Both investments generated considerable box office performance in Taiwan and China respectively. In the same year, we invested in the locally produced film, Paradise in Service and co-produced 20 Once Again with CJ Entertainment for the Chinese market. The movie, whose day-in-a-life structure owes more to Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing” than to Hugo, has echoes of Mathieu Kassovitz’s 1995 film “La Haine,” a picture that Ly has cited as inspiring his own filmmaking ambitions.In 2014, in addition to distributing the movies CATCHPLAY loves, we embarked in earnest co-production and investment projects, venturing into content creation.
The movie digs in its heels here: As much empathy as Ly has for these characters, he understands self-policing by police to be a sham. And a conflict over video footage of the shooting leads to soul-searching and arguments among the cops. A rashly fired flare gun ruins any chance to wrap up the case neatly. It doesn’t take long to track down the teen who took the beast. A lion cub has been stolen from a traveling, and well-armed, circus. The situation the cops face this day seems daft but can turn deadly. After a brief stop at the police precinct, with its commissioner (Jeanne Balibar), who’s unexpectedly tolerant of Chris, the men are back out on the streets, swaggering through encounters with a sprung jailbird a blustery middle-aged guy who calls himself “the Mayor” and a soft-spoken former drug dealer turned Muslim who runs a shawarma shop, which may be the real power center of the poverty-stricken community.
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