[Commentary] On October 23, the documentary "Make a Good Movie" depicting Hong Kong director Xu Anhua's 40-year film career premiered at the Hong Kong International Film Festival. Director and producer Wen Nianzhong appeared with Xu Anhua at the premiere that night.

　　[Commentary] As a senior art director, Wen Nianzhong has collaborated with Xu Anhua in many movies such as "Men Forty" and "When Does the Moon Have".

Wen Nianzhong said that there were few documentaries about Hong Kong filmmakers in the past, and Xu Anhua's love and persistence in film deeply infected him, so he wanted to use this film to record the growth story of Xu Anhua, Hong Kong films and Hong Kong.

During the three-year shooting process, he walked from behind the camera to in front of the camera and became the subject of the shot. Xu Anhua described herself as "doing whatever he wants", and the film presents a very real self.

　　[Concurrent] Hong Kong director Xu Anhua

　　Being a documentary is not the same as being an actor. Being an actor is very hard because you have to memorize the lines and do what you want in a documentary, and then they shoot, which is not the same.

However, of course I don't like to advertise myself, but because I trust Wen Nianzhong very much, he will not make me bad.

(Do you think he presents you truly?) Yes!

　　[Commentary] During the shooting, Wen Nianzhong also gradually observed a little-known aspect of Xu Anhua.

　　[Concurrent] Wen Nianzhong, director and producer of the documentary "Make a Good Movie"

　　She (Xu Anhua) may have always given us the impression that she is a big director. In fact, she has a girlish side, and she has a girlish side, so this makes people feel pretty cute.

(Where is the girly?) For example, she would say some dressing ideas, how to make herself look better, that is, there are some girly ideas.

　　[Commentary] As a pioneer in pioneering the new wave of Hong Kong movies, Xu Anhua has a wealth of works in his career in light and shadow. In the more than forty years in the film industry, he directed "Mad Catastrophe", "Forty Women", "Day and Night in Tianshuiwei" and "Tao "Sister" and many other classic films have won the "Best Director" at the Hong Kong Film Awards 6 times.

In July 2020, Xu Anhua won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 77th Venice International Film Festival, becoming the world's first female director to receive this honor.

Wen Nianzhong said that the filming of "Make a Good Movie" was completed in 2018, and the scene where Xu Anhua went to Venice to receive the award could not be recorded. Unfortunately, he had to present it with subtitles at the end.

　　Reporter Li Waner and Chen Haonan from Hong Kong

Editor in charge: [Liu Xian]