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...Indeed, Zhao's as user-friendly as a Starbucks coffee shop. There's not the manufacture of Zhang Ziyi, the "wing collar" of Karen Mok, the Monroe of Shu Qi, or the candy-cute of Cecilia Cheung Pak-chi. She doesn't nurture distance with the audience. "She's just like a boy," says Wong Kar-wai. "She tells you everything directly, she talks from the heart. Very few people are born to be an actress, but she's one of them." Anyone for more wine...
...role that will set tongues unraveling like red carpets comes in Corey Yuen's Virtual Twilight, a sort of Charlie's Angels-goes-to-China co-funded by Columbia Asia. Mok plays a sophisticated plainclothes cop chasing two killers, dishes Shu Qi and Zhao Wei. It's the up-and-comer vs. the two It-girls of current Chinese cinema. Says mainland actress Zhao: "Karen Mok's cosmopolitan, smart, sexy?and always...
...film opens with a sound-tracked, slo-mo Vicky (Shu Qi) striding across a flyover at night, with the camera at her back. Time enough for her to tell us in narration that she frequently breaks up with Hao-hao, but he always tracks her down. He begs her to come back and, as if hypnotized, she always returns. Turns out she does p.r. for a nightclub and is torn between Hao-hao and Jack, an older man who visits the club. Mad with jealousy, Hao-hao checks Vicky's telephone bills, receipts, even her smell, for signs of extracurricular...
...hours to show us the workings of this relationship, which extends little beyond breezy copulative invective. There are the makings of a fine film within this relationship, but the feckless script won't let it develop. We feel Vicky's intense claustrophobia, but no matter how many cigarettes Shu Qi lights (35 by this reviewer's count), the smoke rises and vanishes into thin nothing. The palpitant star gets more screen time here than in her past 20 films combined and you can't help but look at her, but she is given too little substance from the supporting elements...
...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...