24/4-SF7 No Perhaps
Unfortunately, exactly as I said earlier in mMK blog, in the SF Weekly guide to film, they have described the Opening Night hk film Perhaps Love as "a shamelessly derivative melange of recent Western Musicals - only set in China and Boastinga handsome pan-Asian cast." The SF Bay Guardian too, suggested that it "fails at almost all it attempts. ... pointless East-kowtows-to-West, torture-by-style exercise, glaringly poisoned by contempo-musicals like Chicago and Moulin Rouge." To my surprise though, the cover of the Miniguide for the film fest is a picture of Andy Lau.(photo: Herzog will be here in person for SF FF!)
posted by jaspar at 9:43 AM
2 Comments:
very interesting description indeed! i was disappointed by the so-called chinese musical too.
and it dare nominated after the best film in HK film award!!! how terrible/inhonest/face-concern is the hk film academy insitution/industry. Many people, I meant film critics highly praise Peter Chan, e.g. over his "ghostly" story, but I really can't see what so outstanding about it.
Btw, I knew why Love perhaps is choosen for the opening night!!! it is HK Economic and Trade Office (plus hong kong tourist association, cathay pacific) sponsoring. Money, Money, Money!
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