Love Will Tear Us Apart (1999)

Directed by

Yu Lik-wai

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.

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How it feels

A mainland Chinese prostitute arrives in Hong Kong on a tourist visa and feels invisible in the city. She crosses paths with three other immigrants: a lift operator who lost her leg, her boyfriend who works at a failing porn video shop, and a lift repairer who plays pranks on radio phone-ins. Their lonely lives intersect in cramped and seedy places around the city.

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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.