Hong Kong director Ray Yeung has been defying expectations most of his life. “I [used to be] a good Chinese boy, so I did law to make my family happy, but that was never really something I wanted to do,” he says. So after just two years in the legal profession, he moved on to advertising and then, in 2007, relocated to New York to study film.
And even now he’s working in his dream industry, Yeung still isn’t taking the conventional path. His third feature film, (2019), shook up the local scene with its focus on the romance of two gay men in their twilight years—a topic still seen as unorthodox in Hong Kong. His fourth feature film, , which is slated for release this month, follows Pat (Maggie Li Lin Lin)
