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浮世戀曲 (1992)
To Liv(e)


Reviewed by: hkcinema
Date: 12/21/1999

A successful 35-year-old yuppie business exec runs into a streakof bad luck that forces him to take a hard look at his fast-paced lifestyle. Hitting rock bottom he meets a young couple from the other side of the tracks who teach him the quality of life.

[Reviewed by Tai Seng Catalog]


Reviewed by: jfierro
Date: 12/21/1999

Lindsay Chan won the Best Actress and Josephine Koo won Best Supporting Actress at the Golden Horse Awards for this movie.


Reviewed by: hokazak
Date: 12/09/1999

NOT the 1994 Zhang Yimou/Gong Li movie... Rather, a smart littlefilm (that would fall into the "independent film" genre, in the U.S.) that actually presents, and simultaneously offers insightful cultural and political critiques of, a variety of subject positions and points of view on contemporary Hong Kong, in the aftermath of an international outcry over Hong Kong's involuntary deportation of a number of Vietnamese refugees - culminating in an open letter from actress and well known humanitarian, Liv Ulmann. This film is a response to that letter (in several sequences, one of the protagonists reads from a letter she is composing in response to Ulmann's statement - at times addressing the camera directly), but it is also a "slice of life" peek at the lives and relationships of a couple of overlapping circles of families / friends / lovers. And on yet another level it dramatizes and offers a commentary upon the "caught-in-betweenness" of contemporary Hong Kong and its citizens.