The Phantom Lover (1995)
- Original title
- 夜半歌聲
- Directed by
- Ronny Yu
- Genre
- drama, music, romance
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Rated
- 14A
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 19 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 beautiful singer falls in love with a mysterious composer who hides his disfigured face behind a mask. Their doomed romance is torn apart by class differences and family opposition.
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What happens
The Phantom Lover (Chinese: 夜半歌聲) is a 1995 Hong Kong musical romantic drama film directed by Ronny Yu and starring Leslie Cheung and Jacklyn Wu. It is a remake of the 1937 film Song at Midnight. The film itself is loosely based on the real-life "Phantom Lover" Dan Cheung (known as such due to the ghostlike nature of the women he romanced) and is a loose adaptation of the classic Romeo and Juliet romance where love between two passionate lovers were ultimately doomed when parental opposition was the major obstacle. The main theme of the film was, however, a strong adaptation of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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