Yesterday Once MOre
Lung fung dau
Hong Kong
2004
98 Min
Color
2.35:1
Cantonese, English, Italian
Synopsis
Lau and Cheng are two impossibly gorgeous people, and here they’re playing two impossibly talented thieves, meaning “escapism” isn’t enough of a word for what this movie holds for us. They’re master criminals who are still in love even after being divorced for two years – even if they won’t admit it to each other. Both are living in style, driving all the cars and living in all the swank apartments you’ll never even get to see. She’s now getting married to a raging dope (Carl Wu), but only if she can get her hands on a family heirloom, a priceless necklace currently in the hands of the dope’s cold hearted mommy (Jenny Hu, making her first screen appearance in three decades).
But he’s out to sabotage these plans by stealing the necklace for himself, even if that means horning in on her heist. And what a heist it is; it’s a silly delight involving fast runners, fast dogs, and out-of-shape cops that’s pure fun in its zippy pacing.
The bulk of the film centers on the couple’s will-they, won’t-they reunion, which hinges on her greediness and his playfulness. They globetrot, they one-up each other on minor thievings, and they flirt, flirt, flirt. There’s also some goodness concerning insurance investigators and a mother eager to outwit those that outwitted her and her son, but this stuff’s secondary. The real joys of this movie are merely in watching Lau and Cheng play off one another. —Efilmcritic.com
Director
Johnnie To
Following his directorial debut with the 1980 period martial arts fantasy The Enigmatic Case, To’s career came to something of an apex in the late 1980s thanks to such memorable action films as The Big Heat and tender, personal dramas like All About Ah-Long (the latter of which landed star Chow Yun-Fat a Best Actor award at the 1990 Hong Kong Film Awards). After taking the helm for such memorable action films as The Heroic Trio and directing Stephen Chow in such films as Justice, My Foot and Mad Monk in the early ‘90s, To moved into producing with the creation of independent film company Milky Way Films, a company which yielded such popular Hong Kong action efforts as Nai-hoi Yau’s The Longest Nite and Expect the Unexpected. Though To’s production company was indeed a success, his career behind the camera was in need of some rejuvenation, an issue which he readily addressed with the release of his highly praised 1999 crime drama The Mission.
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