Fame

Filmed in a gritty, semi-documentary style, Fame follows eight aspirants as they pitch their talents for music, dancing and showbiz at an audition to get into a school for performing arts. Only that is when and where the real challenge begins. Four years later and the class take the stage for their graduation performance with the knowledge that a bona fide actor cannot go far with talents and charm alone, and their gruelling training is a mandatory process by which a rough stone is transformed into a precious gem. The spontaneous, high-energy ‘Hot Lunch Jam' creates one of few compelling moments that got the audience swaying in a synchronised rhythm. No sooner, the post-graduation euphoria ends and the harsh reality of work descends. Doris, who finally breaks free of her mother's stranglehold, is slapped with a healthy dose of reality when she runs into Michael, once a star student who winds up fulfilling the table-waiting actor cliché. Fortunes are fickle in the cutthroat world of showbiz and a true star is never born but forged with a will of steel.

Date	Time	Venue
4/6/2017 (Sun)#	2:00pm	Cinema, Hong Kong Film Archive

# Post-screening talk with Ata Wong Chun-tat

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