Version restaurée vue lors d'un Fuori Orario spécial "débuts de Hou Hsiao-Hsien"
A romantic comedy that is barely funny in the way its characters are and totally unfunny in its few attempts at comedy. Some jokes are even too long.
It's well shot and relatively colourful (the picture is old and the filmstock doesn't seem good but the restoration is more than okay). Funny little chinese songs pop here and there, sometimes very randomly.
Score: 4,5/10
Plaisir: 2/5
I came for discovery (as always when switching the TV on at one o'clock in the morning for Fuori Orario a week-end night), I stayed for the funny "chinese" 80s songs.
And that was how began my Hsiao-Hsien journey... (apart from that awful first try with Nie Yinyiang)