Floating Life
Australia
1996
95 Min
Color
English, German, Cantonese
Synopsis
Narrated by each of the children in turn, “Floating Life” is the story of the Chan family’s emigration from Hong Kong. Mr. and Mrs. Chan and their 2 sons (Toby Wong & Toby Chan) leave HK to join youngest daughter Bing (Annie Yip) (an already settled and apparently functionally assimilated businesswoman) in her and her husband’s vast new house in Australian suburbia. Eldest son Gar Ming (Anthony Wong) remains behind, drifting aimlessly and dissolutely in HK, waiting for his immigration papers. Eldest daughter Yen (Annette Shun Wah) lives in Germany with her daughter and German husband, but her comfortable home is cursed with comically terrible feng shui. She has to leave for Australia, via HK, when tensions between Bing and her newly arrived parents threaten to rupture the Chan family. —Shelly Kraicer
Director
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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