Their pain of betrayal, the tragedy of death and coma, and on top of that the frustration of not being able to talk to their partners, brings the two closer together…. Try going in with little more pre-knowledge than that the director takes on the ‘In the Mood for Love’-type theme and see where he takes you from there.
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The movie lightly argues in favour of accepting the similarities with their neighbour Pakistan, women’s rights, the lawyer’s defending-the-guilty problem and deals with the age-old theme of parentally planned versus romantic love as a basis for a marriage. Not enough new material to challenge the audience, repetition of explanation and tedious all-storylines-need-to-come-full-circle make this photo-book movie skim over the surface leaving an impression with but a few scenes.
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DumplingsFruit Chan :: China (HK) :: 2005 :: 1h31While they wait for their furniture to be shipped over from Europe, Mr and Mrs Li float through their empty lives, leading her back in dreams of beauty and the simple desires of youth…. Make a conscious decision on whether or not to go and see this one.The title is symbollically well found.Realistically: seeing the characters’ non-relationship as their unbuilt kitchen (house)Conceptually: contemporary cooking’s promise of a refined purity of taste …
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Zui hao de shi guangHou Hsiao Hsien :: Taiwan :: 2004 :: 2h11Three love stories set in different times and settings with the same actors playing the protagonists…. In this last tale, the viewer is at times simply set aside, at a distance, we see the lovers drive by, we know them but they could also just fade away into the highway traffic, as if their tale is just one amongst many.
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