The films of the Hong Kong director Ann Hui (“A Simple Life”) can be less flashy than those of her regional contemporaries, like Tsui Hark and John Woo. But that’s to her advantage: With remarkable consistency, she has imbued her work with close observation, measured pacing and quiet gravity. Her latest drama, “Our Time Will Come,” a story of the Hong Kong underground during the Japanese occupation in World War II, upholds her high standard with its account of the making of a resistance fighter.
香港导演许鞍华（曾执导过《桃姐》）的电影可能没有同一地区其他当代导演的那么华丽，比如徐克和吴宇森。但那是她的优势：她的作品一向具有细致的观察、精心掌控的节奏和安静的力量。她的最新作品《明月几时有》讲述的是二战期间香港日据时期地下党的故事，影片对一位抗日斗士成长过程的描述体现了她的高水准。
An earnest primary-school teacher, Fang Lan (Zhou Xun), lives with her mother (Nina Paw) in Hong Kong, and finds herself single when her boyfriend, Wing (Wallace Huo Chienhwa), decides to work for the Japanese. Fang’s awakening arrives after seeing how a visiting intellectual she admires is smuggled to safety by members of the Dongjiang guerrillas, who conduct campaigns against the Japanese. Recruited by the group’s rebel leader (Eddie Peng Yuyan, impressive as a dashing man of action), Fang eventually becomes a leader herself, whose spine and commitment are tested when her mother foolheartedly assumes a mission.方兰（周迅饰）是一位热诚的小学教师，和妈妈（叶德娴饰）住在香港，在男友（霍建华饰）决定为日军工作时，与其分手。在看到一位她仰慕的到访学者被抗击日军的东江游击队偷送到安全地区后，她觉醒了。她被游击队领袖（彭于晏饰，一位颇具锐气的实干者，令人印象深刻）招募入队，最终自己成了领袖。在母亲鲁莽地接受一项任务后，她的骨气和忠诚受到了考验。The story is framed by present-day black-and-white passages in which an aging war veteran (the Hong Kong superstar Tony Leung, excellent) recalls Fang’s valor. Tense sequences of undercover operations are reminiscent of those in Jean-Pierre Melville’s “Army of Shadows,” while moments of explosive violence have a “Godfather”-like immediacy. But it’s Fang’s transformation, embodied by Ms. Zhou’s lean, cool authority, that carries the most weight, lending the proceedings an unforced feminist dimension, and reaffirming Ms. Hui’s status as one of China’s cinematic treasures.
故事主线由一系列当代黑白视频片段组建。在视频中，一位年迈的抗战老兵（香港著名影星梁家辉饰，非常精彩）回忆起方兰的英勇。一系列扣人心弦的地下行动让人想起了让-皮埃尔·梅尔维尔(Jean-Pierre Melville)的《影子部队》(Army of Shadows)，而其激烈的暴力时刻又有如《教父》(Godfather)般让人感同身受。不过，最有分量的是方兰的转变，体现在周迅简洁冷静的表演中，给这个故事增添了一种自然的女权主义色彩，再次确立了许鞍华作为中国电影界瑰宝级人物的地位。