Ho Yuk – Let's Love Hongkong

(Drama, Yau Ching, China 2002, 82 min, Cantonese with English subtitles)
First shown in Graz!

Zero (Erica Lam), a young Hongkonger, keeps herself afloat with a series of unsteady jobs.
One day she meets the mysterious Chan Kwok Chan (Chung-Ching Wong) to whom she feels attracted. Chan, however, does not want to let her close, as she does not want her to know about her job as an internet porn model for a cybersex website. für eine Cybersex-Website bekannt wird. And then there is Nicole (Colette Koo), an online regular of Chan's, and Chan's married real-world lover, who altogether make this sensual, often confusing and experimental-looking feature into a love poem to the modern and dangerous metropolis of Hongkong.

"Sassy, witty, with an arresting mixture of playful perversion and melancholia, Ho Yuk is an unconventional valentine to a city that keeps losing and reinventing itself."
Bérénice Reynaud, film critic

Sources: www.imdb.com, www.hi-beam.net


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