Olaf Mller:

"[9th] editions retrospective, the oeuvre of Hong Kong New Wave master of masters Patrick Tam Kar Ming THANK YOU, UDINE [Far East Film Festival] occasioned by his comeback-monument Fu zi (After This Our Exile), probably expressed better than anything in recent memory what popular cinema actually means when it gets serious: a willingness to search for new ideas, a lust for contradictions, a passion for genre always helps! above all, a belief in the audience, its willingness to find out something new about itself. Tam, again and again, has worked the rules, of genre and of Modernism, at the same time in unusual harmonies, like few others were ever able to. Fu zi, now, finally strikes the perfect balance: an echt Cantonese father-and-son-melodrama gets told in a pragmatically modernist realism ending, consequently, in the kind of fury and despair earlier generations of Cantonese masters were afraid of: the house is not only divided, its razed to the ground."