Luz

Luz (2025)

花明渡

In the neon-lit streets of Chongqing, Wei desperately searches for his estranged daughter Fa, while Hong Kong gallerist Ren grapples with her ailing stepmother Sabine in Paris. Their lives collide in a virtual reality world, where a mystical deer reveals hidden truths, sparking a journey of discovery and connection.

Date of release
2025-01-23
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Drama
Director
Flora Lau

Casting

Interesting facts

Luz is a 2025 film written, directed, edited and produced by Flora Lau. A Hong Kong-Chinese co-production, it is Lau's second feature film since Bends, starring Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Pinna, Guo Xiaodong, Huang Lu, David Chiang, and Deng Enxi.

Production

The screenplay was written by Flora Lau and verified by Cinéfondation of Festival de Cannes in 2015.

The title of the film is the Latin word for light and it refers natural light. The words in the Chinese title "花明渡" mean flower (花; huā), illumination (明; míng), and journey (渡; dù). The first two words "花明" are borrowed from a famous ancient Chinese poem by Lu You from Song Dynasty.

Luz was shot in Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR, and France. Principal photography began in May 2018 in Chongqing. The director of photography was Benjamin Echazaretta, a reputable French-Chilean cinematographer, who had worked with other well-known directors with Oscar-nominated films. To ensure the core qualities of the film, gaffer and sound engineers from France followed the entire filming of LUZ in different countries.

Award-winning production designers Alfred Yau (邱偉明) from Hong Kong and Mila Preli from France and costume designers Miggy Cheng (鄭秀嫻) and Khadija Zeggaï contributed essential efforts to the film. Besides costumes that were specially made by costume designer Miggy Cheng for the main characters, stylish pieces from various designer brands, including Loewe, Dries Van Noten, Lemaire, Shang Xia, Yohji Yamamoto, Comme des Garçons were used to outfit th…

The film has included numerous artworks by world acclaimed artists, including Chinese painter Yan Pei-Ming, French photographer/director Antoine d'Agata, Chinese painter Gao Ludi, Hong Kong exciting animator Wong Ping and painters Afa Lee and Prodip Leung, and others. Both the real and the replica of the deer painting, Twilight Forest, were painted by renowned Chinese painter Zhang Yunyao, who resides in Paris.

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