Marking the third time Ann Hui adapts a novel by Eileen Chang (after “Love in a Fallen City” and “Eighteen Springs”), “Love After Love” is based on the short story “Aloeswood Incense: The First Brazier”, a work that the director herself admitted was quite hard to bring to the big screen, particularly due to its dialogue-heavy nature. Nevertheless, Hui managed to gather an all-star team, including actors like Ma Sichun, Eddie Peng and Feye Yu, Dp Christopher Doyle and Ryuichi Sakamoto who handled the score. Let us see how the movie fares however.
“Love After Love” is screening at Asian Pop-up Cinema
Weilong is a young woman from Shanghai, who has come to Hong Kong to finish her education away from her strict father. Facing intense financial issues, however, she ends up at the gates of Madame Liang’s mansion, her father’s sister who was excommunicated from the family...
“Love After Love” is screening at Asian Pop-up Cinema
Weilong is a young woman from Shanghai, who has come to Hong Kong to finish her education away from her strict father. Facing intense financial issues, however, she ends up at the gates of Madame Liang’s mansion, her father’s sister who was excommunicated from the family...
- 4/2/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Marking the third time Ann Hui adapts a novel by Eileen Chang (after “Love in a Fallen City” and “Eighteen Springs”), “Love After Love” is based on the short story “Aloeswood Incense: The First Brazier”, a work that the director herself admitted was quite hard to bring to the big screen, particularly due to its dialogue-heavy nature. Nevertheless, Hui managed to gather an all-star team, including actors like Ma Sichun, Eddie Peng and Feye Yu, Dp Christopher Doyle and Ryuichi Sakamoto who handled the score. Let us see how the movie fares however.
“Love after Love” is available from Fortissimo Films
Weilong is a young woman from Shanghai, who has come to Hong Kong to finish her education away from her strict father. Facing intense financial issues, however, she ends up at the gates of Madame Liang’s mansion, her father’s sister who was excommunicated from the family when...
“Love after Love” is available from Fortissimo Films
Weilong is a young woman from Shanghai, who has come to Hong Kong to finish her education away from her strict father. Facing intense financial issues, however, she ends up at the gates of Madame Liang’s mansion, her father’s sister who was excommunicated from the family when...
- 12/7/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
2016 has been very interesting year for all of the sinophone world, with a plethora of very interesting productions, both cinematically (Tharlo) and in terms of controversy (Ten Years). Art-house and Hk action could not be missing, while Derek Tsang directed a very impressive drama (SoulMate).
With a focus on diversity, here are the best Sinophone films of 2016, in random order. Some films may have premiered in 2015, but since they became widely known in 2016, are also included. Films like “The Tenants Downastairs”, “Godspeed” and “The Summer is Gone” seem like films that could have also been included, but since I have not watched them, I could not put them in this list.
1. Ten Years (Ng Ka-leung)
Despite the fact that it was produced on a budget of merely Hk$500,000, with a cast and crew mainly comprised of volunteers, “Ten Years” was one of the most successful films of the last years,...
With a focus on diversity, here are the best Sinophone films of 2016, in random order. Some films may have premiered in 2015, but since they became widely known in 2016, are also included. Films like “The Tenants Downastairs”, “Godspeed” and “The Summer is Gone” seem like films that could have also been included, but since I have not watched them, I could not put them in this list.
1. Ten Years (Ng Ka-leung)
Despite the fact that it was produced on a budget of merely Hk$500,000, with a cast and crew mainly comprised of volunteers, “Ten Years” was one of the most successful films of the last years,...
- 8/15/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The article was first published on EasternKicks
The script is based on the novel July and Ansen by Qing Shan and tells the story of two girls, from the moment they become friends at 13, and through a number of intervals, to their late 20s.
“Soul Mate” screened at the New York Asian Film Festival
Their relationship is defined by their differences, since July is a well brought-up “princess” from a nice family and Ansen an outgoing, bold girl whose parents have actually abandoned her (her father is dead and her mother is constantly missing). The presence of a man, Jia Ming, is what makes them fall apart, as they start to discover themselves and their differences, while growing up.
Derek Tsang directs a very tender film that manages to combine elaborately elements of romance, drama, and coming-of-age, while exemplifying the fact that he seems to understand women. The story is told in flashbacks,...
The script is based on the novel July and Ansen by Qing Shan and tells the story of two girls, from the moment they become friends at 13, and through a number of intervals, to their late 20s.
“Soul Mate” screened at the New York Asian Film Festival
Their relationship is defined by their differences, since July is a well brought-up “princess” from a nice family and Ansen an outgoing, bold girl whose parents have actually abandoned her (her father is dead and her mother is constantly missing). The presence of a man, Jia Ming, is what makes them fall apart, as they start to discover themselves and their differences, while growing up.
Derek Tsang directs a very tender film that manages to combine elaborately elements of romance, drama, and coming-of-age, while exemplifying the fact that he seems to understand women. The story is told in flashbacks,...
- 6/16/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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