Limbo

Limbo (智齒, 2021) is a Hong Kong noir crime thriller directed by Soi Cheang — stream it online on iFILM. Shot entirely in black and white, it turns the city's rain-slicked backstreets into something close to a fever dream.

A serial killer is preying on women, leaving dismembered remains around the city. Veteran detective Cham and his rookie partner take the case, but the investigation loops back into Cham's own past — a loss that has been following him for years. A female ex-con is brought in as bait. It doesn't stay controlled.

Soi Cheang builds a noir that is less interested in whodunit mechanics than in what prolonged exposure to violence does to the people paid to stop it. Brutal, slow-burning, and visually unlike anything else from that year. Watch Limbo (2021) online on iFILM.