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Twelve
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Year: |
2000 |
Eason Chan and Cecilia Cheung |
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Director: |
Aubrey Lam Oi-Wah |
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Producer: |
Peter
Chan Ho-Sun |
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Cast: |
Cecilia
Cheung Pak-Chi,
Eason Chan Yik-Shun,
Nicola Cheung Sun-Yu,
Candy Lo Hau-Yam,
Stephen Fung Tak-Lun,
Nicholas Tse Ting-Fung, Ronald
Cheng Chung-Kei, GC
Goo Bi, Siu Yeah-Jim |
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The
Skinny: |
A
well-meaning, intelligent examination of modern love that's
worthwhile watching. However, it's also so dismally pessimistic
that it becomes tiring. |
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Review
by Kozo: |
UFO project from UFO people sans
UFO label. Screenwriter Aubrey Lam Oi-Wah makes her directorial
debut under the eye of producer Peter Chan. White-hot Cecilia
Cheung and popular singer Eason Chan star as two strangers
who meet and fall in love, only to watch their love grow and
fade through a succession of 12 nights. They first meet at
Cheung’s birthday party, where her busy boyfriend (Ronald
Cheng) stands her up. She proceeds to discover that he was
supposedly cheating on her, and uses Chan (the boyfriend of
pal Nicola Cheung) to dump Ronald.
That was the first night, and in
the eleven ensuing non-consecutive nights, we see various
stages of love: obsession, self-doubt, jealousy, desire, and
the sort of selfishness that is so abundant in real life that
it’s painful to watch on the big screen. That’s probably my
main complaint with the movie: the petulance and self-centered
attitudes displayed by the characters are so prevalent that
it leaves hope and true affection with no place to go. These
twelve particular nights seem to be the ones that define the
death of a relationship, which can be interesting but really
feels quite unfulfilling.
Furthermore, the characters are unsympathetic.
Sure, this is a film that means to say a lot about relationships,
but whatever lessons that are learned could have been learned
in the first few minutes. Positioned as an examination of
modern love, this film interests but doesn’t affect. (Kozo
2000) |
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Availability: |
DVD
(Hong Kong)
Region 0 NTSC
Universe Laser
Widescreen
Cantonese and Mandarin Language Tracks
Dolby Digital 5.1
Removable English and Chinese Subtitles |
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