Yi ma de hou xian dai sheng huo (2006)

Réalisateur:

Ann Hui

Scénaristes:

Ann Hui (writer)
Qiang Li (writer)

Date de sortie:

6 mars 2007 (China)

Genre:

Comedie | Drame | Romance

Intrigue:

A swindler falls in love with a potential target. |

Plot Keywords:

Middle Age | Boyfriend Girlfriend Relationship | Female | Postmodern | Based On Novel

Récompenses:

9 wins & 12 nominations

Avis des utilisateurs:

Postmodern disappointment

Ensemble

Yun-Fat Chow	...	Pan Zhichang
Gaowa Siqin	...	Ye Rutang
Wei Zhao	...	Liu Dafan
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Qingzhuo Fang
Wenshuo Guan	...	Kuan-kuan
Gang Jiao	...	Guo Feng
Lisa Lu	...	Mrs. Shui
Ke Shi	...	Jin Yonghua
Yi Wang	...	Nurse B
Ziwen Wang	...	Fei-fei
Zhi-Hua Zhang	...	Nurse A

Autre(s) titre(s):

The Postmodern Life of My Aunt (Canada: English title) (International: English title)

Durée:

Canada:111 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

Pays:

Hong Kong | China

Langue:

Mandarin

Couleur:

Couleur

Rapport de forme:

1,85 : 1

Son:

Dolby Digital

Classification:

Hong Kong:I

Lieux de tournage:

Anshan, Liaoning, China

Société:

Beijing Poly-bona Film Publishing Company

Guillemet:

Ye Rutang: I'd like to eat cab.
Liu Dafan: I have had it with you! They called me unfilial, but are you a good mother? Did you ever do right by me? Why did you ever marry Dad, an ordinary worker, and give birth to me? You stayed with us when you needed our help. But as soon as you could back to Shanghai...

Postmodern disappointment

The Postmodern Life of My Aunt is not a comedy, as the ads, and the poster, would suggest. Instead it's a depressing story of how a woman's life slides downhill.

I had other problems with the film as well. As someone who has lived in China for seven years, I can definitely say Siqin Gaowa seemed too dowdy to be a Shanghai woman, and Chow Yun-Fat looked too suave and sophisticated to be a middle-aged Mainland man. I also didn't see the point of the young boy's character, although I guess it is an Ann Hui trope (if that's the right word) to have a character's story told through the eyes of a kid. He was a real cypher, and was barely in the film at all. How could he even know that stuff about his aunt? Using the child's perspective in Song of the Exile worked well, but not here at all. I also couldn't buy Vicki Zhao Wei in her role, and her appearance and back story came so out of the blue that it almost seemed like a joke.

All in all, a big disappointment, but I wouldn't have been so upset about it if the film's advertisements didn't make it look like a comedy. I really dislike when advertisers pull people into a film under false pretenses. If it is a tragedy, fine, advertise it as a tragedy. Just don't mislead audiences.