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...girlfriend. That won Mok a best supporting actress award from the Hong Kong Film Academy. "She's not one of us and nobody knows what to do with her," says Kar-wai, Hong Kong's bard of nihilism and neon. "The Hong Kong Cantonese look at a young Maggie Cheung and see her as the girl next door. They look at Karen and can't identify." Mok has a monopoly on marginality in Hong Kong movies and she's adamant about its benefits: "Hong Kong directors want me to do roles they can't think of anyone else to play...
...Mabel Cheung's Beijing Rocks throws down the gauntlet to Hong Kong. By using the young and restless generation?specifically, determinedly unambitious underground rock singers who want music, not Mao?Cheung questions China's new-order identity struggle and serves up a premise that's hard to refute: Hong Kong is passE, Beijing is today and that shift will dictate China's thereafter...
...rock star and groupie: namely, dysfunctional and bordering on the catastrophic. "There are a hundred ways to die," Yang muses. "Dating a rock singer is one of them." Then Michael appears, gets a place in Road's band and develops one in his heart for Yang. The performances, like Cheung's style, are measured and mature: Geng Le's got depth, Shu Qi stands out in italics and Wu finds a previously hidden range...
...Cheung and Alex Law, her director-producer partner, are the best scriptwriters in Hong Kong. And a film whose theme is extremes finds an ideal cinematographer in Peter Pau, working for the first time since Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. We get a gently pulsing Beijing nightscape saturated with promise; a lens that relaxes when it needs to, then agitates and finds its focus. Director Ang Lee thinks Pau is the best cinematographer anywhere, and on this evidence, the lensman rocks...
...sound-padded back room, Davy crouches in front of a drum set. Even sitting down he seems tall, but it may be just his hair, long and gelled straight up as though he's falling from a plane. A studio musician for pop stars like Kelly Chan and Leslie Cheung, Davy is the only LMFer who earns a living wage with his music. "I do pop music only for the money," Davy says, looking around the room, his neck tattooed with two dice rolling a hard eight. "But here it's my music. Here we do what we want...