The Dryden will screen Hua li shang ban zu (Office, Johnnie To, Hong Kong/China 2015, 117 min., DCP, Cantonese w/subtitles).

Billion-dollar company Jones and Sunn is going public. Chairman Ho Chung-ping has promised CEO Chang, who has been his mistress for more than twenty years, to become a major shareholder of the company. As the IPO team enters the company to audit its accounts, a series of inside stories start to be revealed. Lee Xiang, a new hire at Jones and Sunn, brings with him youthful ideals and dreams. Within the neoliberal market, the logic of intrigue rules, complicated by entanglements of love-hate relationships, which weaves a power play and a pathos-laden tragedy inside the office. Adapted from Taiwanese actress Sylvia Chang's play, critically acclaimed director Johnnie To's Office depicts the fast-paced and glamorous corporate lives of and between men and women. Comedy, romance and musical Office boasts an all-star cast including Chow Yun Fat, Sylvia Chang, Eason Chan, and Tang Wei.

[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Feb-1]