Films about twins are not exactly unusual in international cinema. It is unusual, though, for this kind of movie to be directed by twin directors, which is exactly what is happening in “You & Me & Me”, where, even more, the twins of the movie are both played by the same actress.
“You & Me & Me” is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival
The story takes place in 1999, just before the Y2K scare had many people believing that the world would end. It is also the same for twin sister Me and You, whose loving relationship and constant shenanigans with their identical appearance seem to not be enough for them to be happy, for the first time in their life. That their parents are on the verge of a divorce is just the beginning, but when their mother decides to take them from Bangkok to her former home in Nakhon Phanom Province,...
“You & Me & Me” is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival
The story takes place in 1999, just before the Y2K scare had many people believing that the world would end. It is also the same for twin sister Me and You, whose loving relationship and constant shenanigans with their identical appearance seem to not be enough for them to be happy, for the first time in their life. That their parents are on the verge of a divorce is just the beginning, but when their mother decides to take them from Bangkok to her former home in Nakhon Phanom Province,...
- 4/24/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Johnnie To, Watanabe Hirobumi and Jang Sun-woo set to attend.
The Far East Film Festival (Feff), held in the Italian town of Udine, has revealed the full line-up for its landmark 25th edition, which is set to include appearances from filmmakers Johnnie To, Watanabe Hirobumi and Jang Sun-woo.
Running April 21-29, the festival will open with a double bill: He Shuming’s Ajoomma, the first co-production between Singapore and South Korea; and black comedy Bad Education by Taiwan’s Giddens Ko. It will close with Zhang Yimou’s Chinese blockbuster Full River Red.
The festival will screen 78 Asian films from 14 countries,...
The Far East Film Festival (Feff), held in the Italian town of Udine, has revealed the full line-up for its landmark 25th edition, which is set to include appearances from filmmakers Johnnie To, Watanabe Hirobumi and Jang Sun-woo.
Running April 21-29, the festival will open with a double bill: He Shuming’s Ajoomma, the first co-production between Singapore and South Korea; and black comedy Bad Education by Taiwan’s Giddens Ko. It will close with Zhang Yimou’s Chinese blockbuster Full River Red.
The festival will screen 78 Asian films from 14 countries,...
- 4/6/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Italy’s Far East Film Festival unveiled a power-packed lineup Wednesday for its 25th anniversary edition. The largest cinema event in Europe specializing in popular moviemaking from Asia, Feff will open April 21 with an inspired double bill, He Shuming’s hit Korea-Singapore co-production Ajoomma followed by first-time Taiwanese director Kai Ko’s black comedy Bad Education. And on April 29, the curtain will come down on the festival with the Italy premiere of legendary Chinese director Zhang Yimou’s latest blockbuster, Full River Red. Between those dates, the festival will screen 78 Asian films from 14 countries, including nine world premieres.
The organizers of Feff, founded in 1999 in the picturesque northern Italian city of Udine by festival pioneers Sabrina Baracetti and Thomas Bertacche, say the 2023 selection “aims to showcase the immense complexity of Asia more than ever before.” The lineup indeed presents a compelling snapshot of a wildly diverse content’s commercial cinema in flux.
The organizers of Feff, founded in 1999 in the picturesque northern Italian city of Udine by festival pioneers Sabrina Baracetti and Thomas Bertacche, say the 2023 selection “aims to showcase the immense complexity of Asia more than ever before.” The lineup indeed presents a compelling snapshot of a wildly diverse content’s commercial cinema in flux.
- 4/6/2023
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Far East Film Festival in Italy’s Udine will open with a double bill of He Shuming’s “Ajoomma” and Kai Ko’s “Bad Education.” It will close with Zhang Yimou’s blockbuster period epic “Full River Red.”
In between, the festival will showcase a stunning 78-title array of commercial and art-house films from across East Asia. Operating according to a motto of diversity –implying cultural asymmetries and artistic multiplicities – the 25th edition of the festival will run April 21-29.
Organizers say that their selection “shows in real time how the cinemas of East and Southeast Asia have re-emerged from the gruelling period of the pandemic, not all in the same way and not all with the same results.”
They point to the impact of Covid, politics and emigration from Hong Kong, and the recent resurgence of Cantonese-language cinema.
Similarly, Udine’s organizers note the recent box office struggles of South Korean cinema,...
In between, the festival will showcase a stunning 78-title array of commercial and art-house films from across East Asia. Operating according to a motto of diversity –implying cultural asymmetries and artistic multiplicities – the 25th edition of the festival will run April 21-29.
Organizers say that their selection “shows in real time how the cinemas of East and Southeast Asia have re-emerged from the gruelling period of the pandemic, not all in the same way and not all with the same results.”
They point to the impact of Covid, politics and emigration from Hong Kong, and the recent resurgence of Cantonese-language cinema.
Similarly, Udine’s organizers note the recent box office struggles of South Korean cinema,...
- 4/5/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Both Wanweaw Hongvivatana and Weawwan Hongvivatana are directors, producers and screenwriters from Thailand. They are also twin sisters and have worked together to write and direct the TV series Great Men Academy (2019) and the documentary Wish Us Luck (2013).
On the occasion of their debut feature screening at the Osaka Asian Film Festival, we speak with both Wanweaw and Weawwan Hongvivatana about their filmmaking experience as twins, sisterhood and the Thai movie industry.
You & Me & Me screened at Osaka Asian Film Festival
How was it as an experience, being twins and shooting a film about twins? Was it something you always had in mind to do?
Each and every twin seems to have an interest in the wonders of being twins and conveys it from different angles. The feature film is the tool that we chose to tell this story. We can say that we have always been interested...
On the occasion of their debut feature screening at the Osaka Asian Film Festival, we speak with both Wanweaw and Weawwan Hongvivatana about their filmmaking experience as twins, sisterhood and the Thai movie industry.
You & Me & Me screened at Osaka Asian Film Festival
How was it as an experience, being twins and shooting a film about twins? Was it something you always had in mind to do?
Each and every twin seems to have an interest in the wonders of being twins and conveys it from different angles. The feature film is the tool that we chose to tell this story. We can say that we have always been interested...
- 3/17/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Thitiya (Baipor) Jirapornsilp is an actress and model from Thailand. “You & Me & Me” is her debut.
On the occasion of “You & Me & Me” screening at the Osaka Asian Film Festival, we speak with her about her first movie role, the challenges of playing twins and working with twin directors.
You & Me & Me is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
What drew you in the particular role, and how would you describe the two sisters?
What drew me to audition for the role was that it's a Gdh movie. I've always wanted to work with Gdh. Also, it'd be my first movie, so I thought it was going to be a great start for my career getting to work with Gdh. Moreover, the role I auditioned for is for twin characters. It's very challenging. I never thought I'd win the role. But after I got it,...
On the occasion of “You & Me & Me” screening at the Osaka Asian Film Festival, we speak with her about her first movie role, the challenges of playing twins and working with twin directors.
You & Me & Me is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
What drew you in the particular role, and how would you describe the two sisters?
What drew me to audition for the role was that it's a Gdh movie. I've always wanted to work with Gdh. Also, it'd be my first movie, so I thought it was going to be a great start for my career getting to work with Gdh. Moreover, the role I auditioned for is for twin characters. It's very challenging. I never thought I'd win the role. But after I got it,...
- 3/16/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Osaka Asian Film Festival 2023 (Oaff 2023) held its Special Opening Ceremony today, March 15, with stage greetings featuring filmmakers attending the festival and the World Premiere of the Hong Kong film “Over My Dead Body” (死屍死時四十四).
Oaff 2023 started on March 10, but “Over My Dead Body” was the first title to play at the festival's main venue of ABC Hall. Taking place at ABC Hall, the special event marked the first time since Oaff 2020, and the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, that the festival was able to host guests for Q&As and more. Waiting to meet them was a full audience made up of enthusiastic filmgoers who welcomed an array of stars drawn from 16 films from Japan and abroad.
Among their number were
Hong Kong
“Over My Dead Body”
Director Ho Cheuk Tin (Competition Jury) and Actor Wong You Nam
“Hong Kong Family”
Director Tsang Hing Weng Eric
“Lost Love”
Director Ka Sing Fung...
Oaff 2023 started on March 10, but “Over My Dead Body” was the first title to play at the festival's main venue of ABC Hall. Taking place at ABC Hall, the special event marked the first time since Oaff 2020, and the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, that the festival was able to host guests for Q&As and more. Waiting to meet them was a full audience made up of enthusiastic filmgoers who welcomed an array of stars drawn from 16 films from Japan and abroad.
Among their number were
Hong Kong
“Over My Dead Body”
Director Ho Cheuk Tin (Competition Jury) and Actor Wong You Nam
“Hong Kong Family”
Director Tsang Hing Weng Eric
“Lost Love”
Director Ka Sing Fung...
- 3/15/2023
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Leading Thai production and sales company Gdh 559 is introducing comedy drama Not Friends and twin sister story You & Me & Me to buyers at Filmart, produced respectively by award-winning directors Baz Poonpiriya and Banjong Pisanthanakun.
The new films mark the first time both renowned filmmakers have acted as producer for other directors.
Baz is the director of Thai box office hit Bad Genius and Sundance award-winning One For The Road, while Banjong is the filmmaker behind acclaimed horror The Medium and Pee Mak, which became Thailand’s highest grossing-film of all time when it was released in 2013.
Not...
The new films mark the first time both renowned filmmakers have acted as producer for other directors.
Baz is the director of Thai box office hit Bad Genius and Sundance award-winning One For The Road, while Banjong is the filmmaker behind acclaimed horror The Medium and Pee Mak, which became Thailand’s highest grossing-film of all time when it was released in 2013.
Not...
- 3/13/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Films about twins are not exactly unusual in international cinema. It is unusual, though, for this kind of movie to be directed by twin directors, which is exactly what is happening in “You & Me & Me”, where, even more, the twins of the movie are both played by the same actress.
You & Me & Me is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
The story takes place in 1999, just before the Y2K scare had many people believing that the world would end. It is also the same for twin sister Me and You, whose loving relationship and constant shenanigans with their identical appearance seem to not be enough for them to be happy, for the first time in their life. That their parents are on the verge of a divorce is just the beginning, but when their mother decides to take them from Bangkok to her former home in Nakhon Phanom Province,...
You & Me & Me is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
The story takes place in 1999, just before the Y2K scare had many people believing that the world would end. It is also the same for twin sister Me and You, whose loving relationship and constant shenanigans with their identical appearance seem to not be enough for them to be happy, for the first time in their life. That their parents are on the verge of a divorce is just the beginning, but when their mother decides to take them from Bangkok to her former home in Nakhon Phanom Province,...
- 3/13/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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