2005-01-10 Movies

Today in the Xenix:

Full Moon in New York* (Ren zai Niu Yue) by Stanley Kwan, HK 1990; IMDB:0098187. It was ok, blue colors, dark. Loney people. Unfortunately the dialgs seemed very artificial. The acting did not touch me. I didn’t emotionally understand what was going on between the character Maggie Cheung was playing and her lover. Could be that the movie portrays the lives of immigrant Chinese very well. I heard some evil things about my Chinese ancestry as well... Could be that the lives of actors are also portrayed well, but I cannot tell. So that leaves me with too much drinking in the cold, and cold relationships, and fragments of lives, to quickly out of sight to even notice the pain.

The Center Stage* (Yuen Ling-yuk) by Stanley Kwan, HK 1992; IMDB:0102816. Strange movie. I don’t know any old Chinese movies, and I didn’t know Ruan Ling Yu. It was interesting in a way, seeing how people dress, how they dance, smoke, social rituals, but not very engaging. There were some very nice Maggie Cheung shots, but all in all I was not sucked in... It was interesting to remember that my grandfather left China in 1924...

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