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C'est la Vie, Ma Cherie (1993)

Director: Derek Yee Yee Tung-shing

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From Time Out Film Guide

Grade-A weepie about a rapturous but doomed affair between a jaded jazz musician and a young woman with health problems who sings in the night market. Just as you're recovering from the shock of a Hong Kong movie made with sincerity, credible emotions, a coherent script and a truly joyous use of music, director Derek Yee delivers an emotional knockout that would make a stone weep. A triumph for independent production (no Hong Kong major wanted to touch it), it made a star of the wonderful Anita Yuen and swept the board at the 1994 HK Film Awards.

Author: TR

Time Out Film Guide

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Director: Derek Yee Yee Tung-shing

Producer: Ng Yui-ming

Cast: Anita Yuen, Lau Ching-Wan, Carina Lau, Sylvia Chang, Carrie Ng full cast

Duration: 105 mins


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