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GC Film Festival lets the bullets fly

By CMS

Let The Bullets Fly starring Chow Yun-Fat (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Anna and the King, Hard Boiled)will open this year’s action packed Gold Coast Film Festival on Monday November 21 at Birch Carroll and Coyle Cinemas, Australia Fair Shopping Centre.

It’s the latest film from actor-turned-filmmaker Jiang Wen (Devils on the Doorstep, The Sun Also Rises) and it grossed at staggering 730 million yuan (US$111.1 million) at the box office, making it the highest grossing domestic film in China's cinematic history, beating the previous record set by Aftershock last year.

Jiang also stars in the film, along with A-list actors including Chow Yun-Fat, Ge You, Carina Lau (2046), Chen Kun and Zhou Yun(Bodyguards and Assassins). XiaogangFeng, the director of last year’s blockbuster Aftershock also stars in the film.

Set in China during the warring 1920’s, notorious bandit chief Zhang (Jiang Wen) descends upon a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor, an identity that he has hijacked from Old Tang (Ge You), himself a small-time impostor.

Hell-bent on making a fast buck, Zhang soon meets his match in the tyrannical local gentry Huang (Chow Yun-Fat) as a deadly battle of wit and brutality ensues. Machiavellian mind games, a twisted vendetta and high-octane gun slinging among a bandit posing as a governor, his strategist, and a small-town kingpin are the stuff of adventure and trenchant humour in Let the Bullets Fly.

“Last year Aftershock screened to a packed cinema at the Gold Coast Film Festival, so to have the new highest grossing film ever at the Chinese box office screening this year fills me with great excitement. I am certain Gold Coasters will again come out to see an amazing film from China. Let the Bullets Fly is incredibly entertaining and funny, put it on your must see list!” Casey Marshall Siemer, Festival Director.