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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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.
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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)
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