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...hand-over of Hong Kong to mainland China is a relatively minor event among the emotional cataclysms in this short-story debut. Chiu refracts classic old-vs.-new-world tensions through the prism of second-generation Chinese-American Gen-Xers, inspired more by Kurt Cobain than by Buddha. The resulting chasm between the Chinese Americans and their immigrant parents is filled with disappointments, with tales of anorexia and homophobia, and that stubborn reluctance by young and old to see each other as each wishes to be seen...
Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai's frank and ground-breaking Happy Together was among the first to transcend the sexually conventional in 1997. He undressed every girl's bedroom pin-ups, Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, and started the first few minutes of his movie with a scene showing exactly what men do to each other in bed. At one stroke, amid much audience perturbation, he unmoored the taboos and let them float flamboyantly close to the mainstream. Asian audiences were intoxicated and its filmmakers' impulses raged against society's machinery, creating a new cinematic landscape...
Whispers in doorways. Long, longing looks. Desire at war with propriety. This enthralling, enigmatic, romantic drama from Asia's most influential auteur (Chungking Express) is an essay in appetite and inhibition. In 1962 Hong Kong, two neighbors (Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai) learn that their spouses are having an affair with each other. Slowly they are drawn into their own web of resentment, guilt and lust. Do the cuckolds have their own affair? That is for the viewer to judge. What's beyond dispute is the artful evocation of a world of glamour and deceit, humidity and heartbreak...
...other newly elected Steering Committee members are Vice-Presidents Julia Chuang '03 and Sophia Lai '04, Educational Chair Yan Fang '04, Social Chairs Candice Chiu '04 and Albert C. F. Yeung '04, Interethnic Liaison Robin J. Tang '04 and Webmaster Roger Hong...
...second-place Grand Prix for "Devils on the Doorstep," set in a Japanese-occupied village at the end of World War II. Taiwan's Edward Yang was named Best Director for his stately domestic drama, "A One and a Two." The Best Actor prize went to Tong Leung Chiu-wai, as a cuckolded husband considering an affair with lustrous Maggie Cheung in Wong Kar-wai's Hong Kong period romance "In the Mood for Love...