My Name is Fame

Ngor yiu sing ming

Hong Kong

2006

96 Min

Color

1.85:1

Cantonese, Mandarin

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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SCR Ching 'Jessica' Fong, James Yuen, Law Yiu-Fai

CAST Lau Ching Wan, Huo Siyan, Candy Yu, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Tsang Kwok Cheung, Ekin Cheng, Tung Wei, Fiona Sit, Fruit Chan, Gordon Chan, Ann Hui, Henry Fong, Yiu-Cheung Lai, Jo Kuk, Samson Chiu, Niki Chow, Ku Feng

Fai, a talented actor who has won the Best New Artist of the Hong Kong Film Awards and always plays leading roles in television, is an arrogant guy who does not cherish the opportunities given to him. As he keeps on criticizing his co-workers, his career and popularity gradually deteriorates. He is not offered leading roles anymore and has to take the parts of villains and rapers. Finally, he has even lost his job in the TV station. Fai becomes extremely depressed, but a twist of fate makes him become an agent for extras. As Fai gives pointers to a young girl named Fei, who truly loves acting, he regains his own enthusiasm towards acting and life. —IMDb

Director

Lawrence Ah Mon

Lawrence Ah Mon, was born in South Africa in 1949 and studied film production in California, USA. He first started as an assistant director for Tsui Hark and from then he became an art house director in HK. He’s always been more motivated in rooting his characters into the social context of an era (in the 60’s for Arrest The Restless, in the end of the 80’s for Gangs and after the handover in Spacked Out) than in staging huge action sequences.

His first movie to be acclaimed was Gangs, which was dealing with the problem of youth inside the HK triad society. From then, he directed several movies which showed his particular interest in the young generation confronted to social problems in modern HK. His last two films, Spacked Out and Gimme Gimme, both produced by Johnnie To, tell the stories of very young school boys and girls who have to deal daily with important issues such as drugs, sex, love, abortion and growing in HK.—hkcinemagic.com