We’re Nothing at All

Hong Kong master provocateur Herman Yau returns to the furious anger of his Category III years with a new crime thriller. This self-financed passion project, winner of the Hong Kong International Film Festival’s Audience Choice Award, is loosely drawn from a real 1998 tragedy in Wuhan. A double-decker bus explodes on Valentine’s Day, leaving forensic investigator Lung (Patrick Tam) to sort through the wreckage and the lives that ended there. The trail leads to two broken young men, a cheated construction worker and a harassed busker, pushed toward disaster by poverty and a world that has little use for them. The film moves from police procedural to queer tragedy, with Tam anchoring the investigation with hard-worn gravity. Anson Kong of Mirror and Ansonbean bring heartbreaking intensity as the defiant, doomed couple.

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