Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0601643500249 Format: Color Label: Tai Seng Manufacturer: Tai Seng Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Tai Seng Region Code: 0 Release Date: 2001-06-19 Running Time: 116 Studio: Tai Seng Theatrical Release Date: 1997
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Customer Rating: Summary: The best thing made by Chan Ho Sun Comment: This is actually a perfect love story about love for Hong Kong and the Chines e and how much they loved Theresa Teng. Watching it for a Chinese is a close intimate feeling so Tien Mi Mi is the right name for the movie. I think Hongkong loves China in an inexpressibly enormous albeit damaged way like this movie's main characters love each other. Customer Rating: Summary: "You Must Know Teresa Teng If You're From Mainland" ~ Sweet Sentimentality From The Far East Comment: Note: Mandarian Chinese with English subtitles.
This is a really sweet, tender tale of two strangers, Li Xiao Jun (Leon Lai) and Li Ciao (Maggie Cheung) from mainland China who have recently arrived in Hong Kong in search of a better life. They meet at a McDonald's Restaurant and their mutual attraction is subdued, but immediate. They soon become good friends, comrades as you would say on the mainland and become inseparable. However Li Xiao has a fiancee back home and is unable to express his true feelings towards Li Ciao. Conversely Li Ciao is also falling in love with Li Xiao but tries to ignore the yearnings of her heart because he doesn't appear to be as motivated towards wealth and success as she is.
And so they play the game of being comrades. As they strive towards their individual goals the emotional tie between them strengthens. Soon they are working together, relaxing together and sleeping together, all the while acknowledging nothing more than a deepening bond of friendship. Some of their tenderest moments together are spent listening to the records of Teresa Teng, a popular female singer from the mainland. The beautiful voice and melancholy ballads of the Chinese popstar seem to express in musical form their unspoken feelings of love.
Unable to take their relationship to the next level, they part company. Li Xiao sends for his fiancee and is soon married. Soon after Li Ciao also marries and moves with her new husband to New York.
However as the years slowly pass they both grow increasingly unhappy with their romantic choices and long to be together again. Li Xiao eventually divorces and Li Ciao's husband is killed, victim of a street mugging. Will the two be able to find each other again after ten years apart? In an unexpected turn of events it's the music of Teresa Teng that reunites the two once again.
You couldn't ask for two more charming, attractive people than Leon Lai and Maggie Cheung. The chemistry between them is amazing. The subtitles move quickly and because of their placement on the screen they're at times difficult to read. However this is a love story not to be missed, so if you have to hit the backup button a couple of times to catch want they're saying do it. It's well worth the effort. Customer Rating: Summary: The best love story (almost) i have ever seen! Comment: This movie succesfully brought out my attention on the essential-ity and urgency of expressing your love to the other, without seeking the proper time and place - just then and there...right when you do! Customer Rating: Summary: A brilliant film Comment: I do not need much words to describe Peter Chan's film: Its just brilliant. Great actors, with Maggie Cheung and Leon Lai in the main parts; a wonderful, touching story of two young people from mainland China, seeking luck and prosperity in Hong Kong, falling in love with each other and not able to admit it; and last but not least a nice film music, fitting perfectly to the plot. "Comrades - Almost a Love Story" is definitely one of the best films I've ever seen. Customer Rating: Summary: Terrific love story Comment: This is probably one of the best dramatic films to come out of Hong Kong. Maggie Cheung and Leon Lai light up the screen with tremendous chemistry. A wonderful and sad love story.
