C'est la vie, mon chéri (1993)

Original title

新不了情

Directed by

Derek Yee

Genre

romantic drama film

Country

Hong Kong

Runtime

1h 45m

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A struggling jazz musician meets a woman who performs with a Cantonese street opera troupe. They slowly fall in love, but then she is diagnosed with bone cancer.

tendermelancholicsentimentalslow-burnromanticbittersweetemotionallush

What happens

C'est la vie, mon chéri (lit. 'That's life, my love') (Chinese: 新不了情) is a 1993 Hong Kong melodrama film directed by Derek Yee. The film stars Anita Yuen as Min who is part of a Cantonese street opera troupe who meets Kit, a struggling jazz musician. They do slowly just start to form a relationship with Kit gaining acceptance from Min's family, when Min is suddenly diagnosed with bone cancer, an ailment she had previously suffered with as a child. David Bordwell said that near the beginning of the 1990s, filmmakers in Hong Kong began a cycle of "relationship movies" in Hong Kong, which featured films with less pricy actors and actresses, sentimental scripts, and having lyrical film scores that could be marketed to the music market. Derek Elley wrote in 1994 that C'est la vie, mon chéri was "the year's biggest critical success" where it as among the top five highest grossing films of 1993. Elley continued that at the 13th Hong Kong Film Awards, it won "nearly all the major awards", which included Yee winning and Best Film and Best Screenplay and Anita Yuen winning Best Actress. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

More like this

• Days of Tomorrow (1993)
• Flirting Scholar (1993)
• The Enigma of Love (1993)
• Farewell My Concubine (1993)
• Boys Are Easy (1993)
• Untamed Heart (1993)
• A Moment of Romance II (1993)
• Funeral March (2001)