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LOVE WILL TEAR US APART
Synopsis
Ah Ying is a "Miss Big North" (1) from Wunan in Mainland China. She braved her way to Hong Kong with a short-term tourist visa. Here in Hong Kong, she does not exist. In her eyes, this city does not exist neither... During this initiatory journey to the Dollar-City, she met other three immigrants from mainland China : Quin works as a lift operator in a big Chinese restaurant. She used to work as a social dance teacher. She lost her son and one leg in a traffic accident. Ah Jian is Quin's live-in boyfriend. An outmoded villain, he works in a porno video rental shop which is facing its insolvency. Ah Chun is a lift repairer. A disciplined introvert, his only past-time is playing bad jokes in the radio phone-in program and frequenting brothels. Entrapped in those dingy brothel, cramped lift or deserted karaokes, their sentimental trajectories intertwined.(1) pejorative term given to prostitute from mainland China.
YU Lik Wai
Credits
- Elbut POON - Set Designer
- YU Lik Wai - Director
- YU Lik Wai - Screenplay
- LAI Yiu Fai - Cinematography
- NIL - Music
- CHOW Keung - Film Editor
Actors
Contacts and useful links
Production
GEMINI FILMS
Foreign sales
INTRA MOVIES SRL
The Official Selection 1999
In Competition
- 8 1/2 WOMEN
- A CARTA
- CRADLE WILL ROCK
- EL CORONEL NO TIENE QUIEN LE ESCRIBA
- FELICIA'S JOURNEY
- GHESSE HAYE KISH
- GHOST DOG : THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI
- KADOSH
- KIKUJIRO
- L'HUMANITE
- LA BALIA
- LE TEMPS RETROUVE
- LIMBO
- LOVE WILL TEAR US APART
- MOLOCH
- NOS VIES HEUREUSES
- POLA X
- ROSETTA
- THE EMPEROR AND THE ASSASSIN
- THE STRAIGHT STORY
- TODO SOBRE MI MADRE
- WONDERLAND