Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week (October 19-25), from Wind River to Only the Brave
A superb thriller on a reservation, heroic firefighters, Italian politics and organised crime, a modern-day horror story, and Queen Victoria’s friendship with her Indian footman top this week’s picks
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1. Wind River
The heroic tale of the “Granite Mountain Hotshots” firefighting team, who battled against one of the US’s deadliest wildfires in Arizona in 2013, is told with disaster-movie visuals and great emotional poignancy in this true-life drama by Joseph Kosinski, best known for his sci-fi spectacles Tron Legacy and Oblivion. (Opens on October 19)
3. Suburra
Politics and organised crime become intricately intertwined when a member of parliament is implicated in a prostitute’s murder in this Italian neo-noir gem, adapted from a novel by Giancarlo De Cataldo and Carlo Bonini. For those who want more, a prequel television series has also recently started streaming on Netflix. (Now showing)
4. Safe
There is no getting around it: Stephen Frears’ royal drama about Queen Victoria and a young Indian clerk she befriended takes a far too casual look at British colonialism. Still, it’s an undeniable delight to watch Judi Dench’s magisterial turn as the queen, imbued as it is with both tenderness and mischief. (Opens on October 19)
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