Hold You Tight (film)

1998 Hong Kong film
  • February 14, 1998 (1998-02-14) (Hong Kong)
Running time
94 minCountryHong KongLanguageCantonese

Hold You Tight (Chinese: 愈快樂愈墮落; pinyin: Yù kuàilè yù duòluò) is a 1998 Hong Kong romantic drama film directed by Stanley Kwan.[1] The film features full-frontal male nudity.[2]

It is Stanley Kwan's seventh feature film, and he says that his previous two documentaries A Personal Memoir of Hong Kong and Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema had strong influences on making this film: "Both of them evolved from my thoughts on family background and upbringing, my career as a filmmaker, my sexual orientation and my identity as a Chinese man living in a British colony. The film was written for Hong Kong actress Chingmy Yau who plays two roles, a young executive and a worldly boutique owner."[3]

Cast

  • Chingmy Yau as Ah Moon/Rosa Gao
  • Sunny Chan as Fung Wai
  • Eric Tsang as Tong
  • Lawrence Ko as A-che
  • Sandra Ng Kwan Yue as Video Dealer
  • Tony Rayns as Rosa's Friend

Awards

In 1998, Hold You Tight won the FIPRESCI Prize — Special Mention and Silver Screen Award for Best Actor at the Singapore International Film Festival, the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Alfred Bauer Prize and Teddy Award at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival.[4] The following year, it won the Award of the Pestalozzi Children's Village Foundation at the Fribourg International Film Festival and the Film of Merit award at the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards.[5]

See also

  • Film portal

References

  1. ^ Bhob Stewart (2015). "Hold You Tight". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 24 May 2015.
  2. ^ Kwan's patchy epic loses its grip. Paul Fonoroff. Publisher: South China Morning Post (in English). Published: 13 March 1998. Retrieved: 18 April 2014.
  3. ^ "Wettbewerb/In Competition". Moving Pictures, Berlinale Extra. Berlin. 11–22 February 1998. p. 22.
  4. ^ "Berlinale: 1998 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
  5. ^ "Awards for Yue kuai le, yue duo luo". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 18 January 2008.

External links

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