Tuesday, February 28, 2012
LOVE AFFAIR
Today's gay film is by the Hong Kong director Stanley Kwan and starring Hu Jun and Liu Ye.
There is some stuff about this being the first gay film made in China but that is less the point than this is an excellent film with a good strong story that covers a relationship that lasts a decade (watch the phones change from scene to scene).
It is sexy and buoyant and, being chinese, necessarily, a bit sad and tragic. But that is somehow OK.
Lan Yu is a young student, a committed gay, who hooks up with a successful business man in a one nighter which proceeds to love and the usual ups and downs of any relationship that we want to last for awhile or forever. And don't. Men can be pigs.
The photography is great. Intimate. You feel the love.
Hu, the older more reluctant man carries it. Ye is right there to catch the ball, so to speak. They are wonderful together.
I would not mind seeing this again. It is a simple story and it will last for awhile I am sure.
I will give it a 4 out of Netflix5.
