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...Isabelle Huppert and her costar this year at Cannes, is a fevered, fascinating, often goofy tale of sadomasochism. Nor is the form limited to the young-renegade set; brand-name directors are making sexy films too. The three-part Eros is to be directed by Pedro Almodovar, Wong Kar-wai and the great, 89-year-old Michelangelo Antonioni...
...heat was on. After two minor films, Wong Kar-wai knocked on Mok's door for the Chungking Express follow-up, Fallen Angels, in which she wore a wig and played Punkie, a semicrazed jilted 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...
...Chow's God of Cookery. She tucked away her plumage to create a visually impaired, bucktoothed, kick-ass noodle vendor, for which she was again nominated by the Academy. She was back in psycho mode for Four Faces of Eve, a movie in four dislocated parts shot by Kar-wai's noted cinematographer Chris Doyle. And in Sylvia Chang's Tempting Heart, she plays a bisexual with yearnings for both Hong Kong actress Gigi Leung and Japanese-Taiwanese actor Takeshi Kaneshiro. Mok may not get marquee roles but the technical precision and spontaneity she summons within her performances ensure...
...what does an LMF song have that you can't get in a bubblegum-smacking Kelly Chan tune? "They say what the young want to say," says Cheung Chi Wai, a 29-year-old photographer who has worked with the band. "It's not about foul language. The young generation gets the lyrics because they've had the same experience." Twenty-nine-year-old lyricist and rapper Chan Kwong-yan, a.k.a. M.C. Yan, wants to make music that reflects the way people really talk. "We use a lot of Cantonese street slang in our songs. Canto-pop love songs...
...time for the pendulum to swing again. Thus Fulltime Killer, with Lau battling Japanese actor-singer-heartthrob Takashi Sorimachi for the title of "gold medalist of assassins." For once, To and Wai have crafted a parable on the danger of liking your job too much. Tok (Lau) believes murder is an art; after a kill he gestures, hand raised like a matador. What's inside that spray of flowers he's carrying? His mini-Uzi. What does he do in the middle of a lunch date? Run outside, don a Bill Clinton mask, and gun down a half-dozen rivals...