Hong Kong’s prince of sensual cinema praised the territory’s love of freedom Monday but said he hoped unrest there could calm as quickly as it did after an anti-colonial revolt in 1967. Veteran director Yonfan hailed Hong Kongers’ deeply engrained democratic spirit as he premiered his new love story, “No. 7 Cherry Lane”, at the Venice film festival. Yonfan, 71, said the 1967 clashes — which also lasted several months — mysteriously faded as quickly as they had erupted.
