Lockdown and New Year have something in common. They both bring family members closer (in any sense) and allow them – or force them – to share joys and pains. “Chilli Laugh Story” is the debut feature of young director Coba Cheng, who plays on this convenient communality, and sets this classic Lunar New Year comedy based on his own similar experience, in the Hong Kong community during the lockdown. Because of those same featured restrictions, the film couldn’t be released in cinemas for the New Year, but it is finally out now and also due to UK theatres these days.
The house-bound Cheung family is composed by proud dad Alan (Ronald Cheng), mum Rita (Gigi Leung) eternally worrying and dreaming of owning a flat in Hong Kong one day, and son Coba (Edan Lui) who struggles to work from home, disturbed all day by dad’s television and the constant...
The house-bound Cheung family is composed by proud dad Alan (Ronald Cheng), mum Rita (Gigi Leung) eternally worrying and dreaming of owning a flat in Hong Kong one day, and son Coba (Edan Lui) who struggles to work from home, disturbed all day by dad’s television and the constant...
- 7/14/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
A Hong Kong family’s lockdown project to market a much-loved home recipe is an engaging effort that might just appeal to international tastes
As film distributors are all too painfully aware, comedies are notoriously difficult to export from one culture to another, however successful they may have been in their home territory. But this perky Cantonese feature is relatable and timely, given the story revolves around an extended family of working-class Hong Kong strivers trying to get ahead and survive the recent pandemic.
Twentysomething protagonist Coba Cheung (popstar Edan Cheuk-On Lui), lives in a modest flat with his hardworking mother Rita (Gigi Leung) and charming but shiftless dad Alan (Ronald Cheng). An average student who doesn’t have the same prospects as his friends from wealthier families, Coba has to do what he can with a natural hustler’s instinct. As Covid-19 hits Hong Kong hard and confines everyone indoors,...
As film distributors are all too painfully aware, comedies are notoriously difficult to export from one culture to another, however successful they may have been in their home territory. But this perky Cantonese feature is relatable and timely, given the story revolves around an extended family of working-class Hong Kong strivers trying to get ahead and survive the recent pandemic.
Twentysomething protagonist Coba Cheung (popstar Edan Cheuk-On Lui), lives in a modest flat with his hardworking mother Rita (Gigi Leung) and charming but shiftless dad Alan (Ronald Cheng). An average student who doesn’t have the same prospects as his friends from wealthier families, Coba has to do what he can with a natural hustler’s instinct. As Covid-19 hits Hong Kong hard and confines everyone indoors,...
- 7/11/2022
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
The full programme for the 2022 edition of Fantasia International Film Festival, Quebec’s premiere genre film festival which runs this year from July 14th to August 3rd, has been announced and as always, it features a vast and varied selection of Asian titles right across its programme. In addition to a Korean Animation Spotlight, showcasing an amazing variety of excellent works, Asian films also populate their flagship juried competition Cheval Noir, the best of genre cinema in Selection 2022, the experimental and audacious Camera Lucida, animation segment Axis and the Fantasia Retro section, while also having a presence in their Documentaries from the Edge and Fantasia Underground section.
Here is a list of all the Asian titles, feature and shorts, at Fantasia International Film Festival 2022:
Features:
Alienoid
Alienoid: In medieval Korea, in the final days of the Goryeo Dynasty, two Taoist warrior-mystics—clumsy swordsman Mureuk and gunslinging Lee Ahn—strive...
Here is a list of all the Asian titles, feature and shorts, at Fantasia International Film Festival 2022:
Features:
Alienoid
Alienoid: In medieval Korea, in the final days of the Goryeo Dynasty, two Taoist warrior-mystics—clumsy swordsman Mureuk and gunslinging Lee Ahn—strive...
- 7/5/2022
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
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