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Love After Love (Ann Hui, 2020)
Ann Hui

Love After Love (Ann Hui, 2020)

Love After Love is director Ann Hui’s third adaptation of a story by Eileen Chang, following 1984’s Love in a Fallen City and 1997’s Eighteen Springs. I haven’t seen the latter, but Love in a Fallen City is one of my favorite of her films, a
28 Jan 2022 3 min read
The Shadow Play (Lou Ye, 2018)
Lou Ye

The Shadow Play (Lou Ye, 2018)

At this point the best advice I can give you, the prospective viewer of a Lou Ye movie, is this: don’t see it in a theatre, and if you must, sit as far away from the screen as possible. Possibly contemporary cinema’s most extreme abuser of the close-up,
01 Oct 2019 3 min read
Soulmate (Derek Tsang, 2016)
Derek Tsang

Soulmate (Derek Tsang, 2016)

A young woman, Ansheng, is tasked by her boss with tracking down the author of an in-progress serialized web novel, as their company would like to option it for a movie adaptation. (This is a thing that happens: the best film of 2014, Fruit Chan’s The Midnight After (now
22 Sep 2016 3 min read
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