Yue kuai le, yue duo luo
Hong Kong, 1997. A mainland-born computer software designer and his wife. A Taiwanese boy who feels a strong and inexplicable attraction to the programmer but ends up making love to his wife. Then there is an affable gay Hong Kong-born real estate agent. The Taiwanese boy returns to Taipei and meets a woman who looks exactly like the programmer's wife. All these lives intertwine. Images as fragments of lives are freed from melodramatic chronology and put together following the protagonists' emotions. After experience in theater, with experimental shorts, and making two documentaries which allowed him to look back to his own roots and identity, Stanley Kwan has attained an astonishing simplicity, frankness and honesty in describing modern people confused with their love: each of them trying to see him/herself as he/she really is—to regain peace, a relationship with oneself as well as with others. It is also a spiritual, and phychological document about what Hong Kong's 1997 historical transition has meant to its people. (Source: YIDFF)
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Runtime
99 min -
Country
Hong Kong -
Year of Presentation
1998 -
Year of Production
1997 -
Director
Stanley Kwan -
Cast
Yau Chingmy (AKA Yau Shuk Ching), Sunny Chan, Eric Tsang, Yue-lin Ko (AKA Yulun Ke, Yu-Luen Ko, Lawrence Ko), Sandra Ng Kwun-Yu (AKA Sandra Lin, Kwan-yue Ng, Sandra Ng, Jun-Ru Wu), Tony Rayns, Chi-Ming Au, Shu-Fun Chin, Kar-Lok Choi, Lanie Gibson, Man-Ning He, Jerry Lai, Wing-Kiu Lau, Siu-Kei Lee, Wing-Yin Sin, Chuen-Ying Siu, Man-Wai Wong -
Production Company
Kwan's Creation Workshop Production, Raymond Chow -
Berlinale Section
Competition -
Berlinale Category
Feature Film -
Teddy Award Winner
Best Feature Film
Biography Stanley Kwan
Stanley Kwan (simplified Chinese: 关锦鹏; traditional Chinese: 關錦鵬; born October 9, 1957) is a Hong Kong film director and producer.
Kwan landed a job at the TVB after receiving a mass communications degree at Hong Kong Baptist College. Kwan's first film was Women (1985), which starred Chow Yun-fat, and was a big box-office success.
Kwan's films often deal sympathetically with the plight of women and their struggles with romantic affairs of the heart. Rouge (1987), Full Moon in New York (1989), Center Stage (1992; a.k.a. Actress), a biopic on silent film star Ruan Lingyu and Everlasting Regret (2005), are all such typical Kwan films. Red Rose White Rose (1994) is an adaptation of an Eileen Chang novel. The film was entered into the 45th Berlin International Film Festival.[1] His 1998 film Hold You Tight won the Alfred Bauer Prize and Teddy Award at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival.[2]
Kwan came out as a gay man in 1996 in Yang ± Yin, his documentary looking at the history of Chinese-language film through the prism of gender roles and sexuality. He is one of the few openly gay directors in Asia and one of the very few to have worked on these themes.[3] His Lan Yu (2001) adapts a gay love story originally published on the Internet.
- Source: Wikipedia
Filmography Stanley Kwan
2001 Lan Yu