》的评论版登了一篇英文长文,作者是个叫马丁的英国影评人。他写道:“Ling Zhi-fei has done what no Hong Kong director has managed before——he has made a film that is unmistakably Hong Kong, yet speaks a language that Venice understands. The ferryman in 'The Star' is not just a character; he is the city itself, navigating between past and future, between the shore it left and the shore it cannot yet see.“