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Hong Kong, China · 2019
2h 5m
Director Yonfan
Starring Sylvia Chang, Zhao Wei, Alex Lam, Kelly Yao
Genre Animation, Drama, Romance
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Set in 1967, when Hong Kong was caught in the midst of a pro-China, anti-British student uprising, the film follows Hong Kong University student, Fan Zi Ming, and how he comes to develop a love triangle with a single mother and her teenage daughter.
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Los Angeles Times by Carlos Aguilar
Intellectually intoxicating and stylistically sumptuous, this romantic oddity about the passage of time (for an individual and for a country) evokes the grand elegance of a Wong Kar-wai epic infused with mature droplets akin to anime like “Belladonna of Sadness” or “Millennium Actress.”
The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
A spellbinding love letter to Hong Kong and the movies.
Many will be left bewildered by the sheer, deranged obsessiveness of Yonfan’s nostalgia head-trip — indeed, there were whistles and walkouts at its first Venice press screening — but accustomed Yon-fans and patient adventurers will fall madly for its madness.
The New York Times by Isabelia Herrera
Consider this film a master class in world-building, a bewildering but poignant dream — one that will leave you with plenty of burning questions.
Screen Daily by Jonathan Romney
The film is sometimes stylishly executed, but its hyper-aesthetic, even rarefied approach, together with a confusing dream-tinged narrative and a general sense of narcotised sluggishness, will make for limited appeal beyond Asian markets and the fanbase for traditional drawn animation.
It definitely demands patience ... but it rewards it with a similarly narcotic effect.