Love Will Tear Us Apart
This film gets under the skin of a very marginalized group: recent immigrants to Hong Kong from Mainland China. Belying the expectation that they will belong in a territory now returned to China's sovereignty, they find themselves lonely, frustrated, poor and employable only in the most menial jobs from elevator service staff to prostitution.
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Released
- 1999
- Country
- Hong Kong
Details
Release year: 1999
Storyline
This film gets under the skin of a very marginalized group: recent immigrants to Hong Kong from Mainland China. Belying the expectation that they will belong in a territory now returned to China's sovereignty, they find themselves lonely, frustrated, poor and employable only in the most menial jobs from elevator service staff to prostitution.
Top credits
Tony Ka Fai Leung — Jian
Liping Lü — Yan- Ning Wong — Ying
- Rolf Chow — Chun
Did you know
• The film is considered by French scholar Berenice Reynaud to be a loose remake of the Eustache film, The Mother and the Whore.
User reviews
Painful to watch, but not a total waste of time...
You can actually watch it in fast forward !
Technical specs
- Color
- Color
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