Farewell China
Ai zai bie xiang de ji jie
Hong Kong
1990
115 Min
Color
1.85:1
English, Mandarin, Cantonese
Synopsis
Hong Kong acting legends Tony Leung Ka-Fai and Maggie Cheung star as a Chinese couple separated by the painful, arduous and risky process of illegal immigration to America. A year after his wife leaves for New York City, Leung Ka-Fai follows, but discovers his wife’s been lost in the crush of poverty, hardship and urban decay. Gritty and unsentimental, Farewell China was nominated for Best Film at the Hong Kong Film Award. —Rottentomatoes.com
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Clara Law
Clara Law (羅卓瑤) (born 29 May 1957 in Macau) is a Hong Kong film director, now having relocated to Australia before the 1997 Hong Kong handover.
She has produced several films focusing on the themes of migration and the identity crisis of Hong Kong people. Her most remarkable works include Farewell China (1990) and Autumn Moon (1992).
After she moved to Australia, she continued her film career and made several films including Floating Life (1996) and The Goddess of 1967 (2000), both have won numerous awards in Australia and film festivals around the world. Her latest film is Letters to Ali (2004), which deals with Australia’s refugee situation.
She often collaborates with her husband, Eddie Fong Ling-Ching, who usually is her screenwriter. —Wikipedia
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John
1May11
"L'abêtissement." The degradation of the human soul through meager conditions. Had a few rough edges, like a few of the Clara Law films I've seen, but the message was loud and clear, with Hong Kong's against-all-odds optimism, seen in the character of the young girl played by Hayley Man. Funny though, that a film this good, though working off a quite typical "downfall" narrative, couldn't be made in U.S.
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