Hold U Tight R(A)
Hold U Tight, the Hongkong director's first feature since 1994's Red Rose White Rose, is his most personal film to date. Not that it is strictly speaking 'gay cinema', despite winning the Teddy (Gay/Lesbian) award at the Berlin International Film Festival in February. Eric Tsang, plays a gay, Tong and Ko Yue-lin a Taiwanese lifeguard, Jie, who goes both ways, but, there is also straight couple Fung Wa (Sunny Chan) and Ah Moon (Chingmy Yau).
The story start with Ah Moon's fatal plane accident en-route to Taipei for a business meeting. It retraces her marriage to Fung Wa, a software programmer so engrossed in his work he does not notice Ah Moon's affair with Jie. Later, unaware that Ah Moon has died and wanting to know why she has disappeared, Jie takes to stalking Fung Wa. He becomes attracted to him. Likewise Tong, the real-estate agent, selling Fung Wa's apartment. The three eventually part as friends and Jie returns to Taipei where he meets a boutique owner (Chingmy in a dual role) who looks like the dead woman.
These characters wander through each other's lives and get emotionally involved without ever feeling deeply. They pine for lost lovers, who, when either around or alive, they were incapable of loving fully.
Their sexual orientation may be more diverse and the sex scenes unusually frank. Otherwise, this languorous lovelorn ballad is almost a refrain from the filmmaker's earlier Love Unto Waste (1986). One person's death again sets the plot in motion and the plot is again elliptical, looping round to repeat certain incidents. The movie is sophisticated. To the extent, sometimes, of being aloof. But it has a ruefulness that is haunting, as well as a cast- Chingmy Yau, in particular, is a revelation - at their never-before-seen best.
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