1996 ‘甜蜜蜜’ Directed by Peter Chan
Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao and they become friends. As friendship turns into love, problems develop, and although they seem meant for each other they somehow keep missing out.
Leon Lai Maggie Cheung Kristy Yang Christopher Doyle Eric Tsang Joe Cheung Tung-cho Irene Tsu Ding Yue Michelle Gabriel Crystal Chan Jane Choi Yu Ting Gine Lui Heather Traber Len Berdick Robin Gold Dora Ng Lei-Lo Chi Ming Woo Adrian Kwan Yeung Ting Crystal Suen Ah-Lei Pui-jing Ding Yan Liang Baat Leung-Gam
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The right person at perhaps the wrong time, but time keeps moving and so too they until one day both become right. Until then the pain in wanting something so close but not quite ready is almost cruel, visions of the ideal so fully-formed in its proximity to the now it seems just within reach with a bit more work but the 80-20 rule rears its head and that last 20 just seems to never quite come. It can with time. Until then there is still a life to live before they can become part of yours.
Just really nice, and a rare example of friendship naturally transforming into romance on film. Certainly there have been movies which attempt to…
i mean, what's not to love? Maggie Cheung... Christopher Doyle as a horny English teacher!?
relentlessly melodramatic romance that touches upon the chinese diaspora and the frustrated upward mobility of mainlanders vs. their hong kong counterparts and also touches about MAGGIE CHEUNG. i mean... the best. Leon Lai is, comparatively, a chore and a half. wasn't expecting this to go where it went (geographically, at least), but the tinny synth vibes pay off, and the romance is believable (and oddly relatable) even when it isn't.
i don't even want to see the restoration. hilariously flubbed subtitles and the soft haze of VHS brings this to life.
“I knew it! We are both comrades.”
If someone asked me to name a movie that perfectly captures what it is like to fall in love and pursue dreams in the age of capitalism, I would not even think twice before answering Tian Mi Mi.
Joining forces for the first and only time with household name Maggie Cheung and pop singer Leon Lai, director Peter Chan brings a heartwarming love story to screen which despite revisiting some old scenarios, manages to keep its own purpose and essence.
The idea of watching two people falling in love even though they would had been following two different paths from the very beginning sounds petty, but it is not. It is awe-inspiring.
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"Há muito tempo nos apaixonamos por ela."
Amar como um ato de compartilhar identidade cultural. O gesto e o olhar que geram uma memória, um acúmulo de momentos juntos que permanecem a mais bonita forma de estar no mundo.
Poucos filmes sabem lidar tão bem com 10 anos narrativos como esse. Uma história que se rende ao tempo em todos os sentidos, que se despedaça e nasce de novo a cada cartela informando um novo ano. Essa experiência de efemeridade que traduz o mundo consegue evidenciar muito bem todo um peso passado em suas sequências presentes; assegura, acima de tudo, o cinema como uma possibilidade de elucidação da vida na duração de um gesto.
a film made of dreams, the march of time and the frailty of everything. hopes and frustrations, all the tenderness and all the bitterness in the world.
"Happy New Year!"
"Prosperity"
"To happiness"
"To money"
"To longevity"
"To a jackpot"
"To good health"
"To a Mercedes"
"To a better life"
"To... friendship"
Language as identity, and Love as a multifaceted entity, often finding itself stuck in a tug of war with Ambition, colliding with the want for material gain, with the complexities brought on by dishonesty towards other lovers, and in turn, dishonesty towards one's own heart. Stuck in denial for the longest time, bringing pain to yourselves and to people you love.
But at long last, with lovers estranged or dead, and finding yourselves in a land where people speaking Cantonese or Mandarin are lumped together all the same, luck finds you drawn to each other…
Boldly romantic, deftly political, intoxicatingly pop. One of the great melodramas.
"jump you son of a bitch, jump."
"you go to hell."
my boy chris doyle teaching only the essentials of english.
capitalism ruins everything around me
mostly effective use of the romantic dramedy to investigate the failure of the market economy and its biggest con, the entrepreneurial spirit, to solve for poverty and xenophobia, with love as strained as a bank account.
spent the entire second hour yelling QUIT PLAYING GAMES (WITH MY HEART)™ at the screen, but the biggest game...was globalization.
the version of ny street gangs culled from a giuliani '93 campaign speech nearly ruined it for me but i'd be lying if i said i wasn't crying the entire last minute or so.
The story of two emmigrants from the Northeast of Brazil who meet in São Paulo. She is ashamed of her birthplace and aspires to live a luxurious, shopaholic and English-speaking life. He keeps reminding her of their origins with his Luiz Gonzaga tapes.
