Yue man xuan ni shi (Crossing Hennessy) Cantonese Comedy Movie 2010
Cast And Crew
Cast :Jacky Cheung ,Wei Tang,
Ekin Cheng,Maggie Cheung Ho Yee,
Wai Lam,Danny Lee,Lowell Lo
Director: Ivy Ho
Writer:Ivy Ho
Release Date: 1 April 2010 Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy | Romance
Runtime: Hong Kong:105 min
Country: Hong Kong
Language:Cantonese | Mandarin
Plot:
Two shopkeepers are set up on a blind date by well-meaning relatives, despite the fact that they both have somebody else on their minds.free Yue man xuan ni shi (Crossing Hennessy) Cantonese Hong Kong Film The film Directed by Ivy Ho.
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Crossing Hennessey Synopsis :
Hennessy Road in Wanchai is the real Hong Kong, like Delancy in the Lower East Side is the real New York. Oilin (Tang Wei) and Loy (Jacky Cheung) live and work on Hennessy Road. She takes care of her uncles stockpile of bathtubs, and he peddles his mom's dehumidifiers. Their elders, eager to marry them off, foist them on a date. But alas, Loy is holding the torch for an old flame, and Oi-lin is waiting for her beau to get out of jail. With a delightful case and a delicious script, director Ivy Ho brings home a one-of-a-kind romantic comedy loaded with family values.
Hong Kong Movie Reviews :
The last Ivy Ho film I caught was Claustrophobia at Tokyo two years back, which I had enjoyed with its rather unconventional narrative and storyline which dealt with office romantic dalliances, with moments that were brilliant in making you reflect. Here she's gone for something more conventional and light-hearted, but that doesn't mean those reflective moments were forgotten. She brings back two actors to the silver screen and no doubt being the highlight of the film - Tang Wei of Lust, Caution fame makes a comeback of sorts, and stars opposite Jacky Cheung, who had recently returned to film (the other being 72 Tenants of Prosperity sharing the limelight with a lot of people), and both bring a little something to the table if not already making you want to root for their characters to overcome their predicament.
Ivy Ho continues to craft characters which are easily to identify with, and the actors being really natural in fleshing them to life. Jacky Cheung plays Loy, an average Joe who is resigned to coasting through life, being perpetually able to sleep anywhere, often interacting with his deceased dad (Lowell Lo) when in dreamland, and have problems getting out of bed in the morning. He's pushing past 40, yet is heavily reliant on his aunt (played by Zhu Mimi) as a primary welfare care-giver to the entire family (and seems a better mom than Loy's vain pot own, played by Paw Hee-Ching) and works in his mother's electrical appliance shop. Tang Wei's Oi Lin is nicknamed the Toilet Bowl Xi Shi, for being the beauty working in a toilet fixtures shop run by her guardian uncle and aunt, who decided it's high time she got married and make it a point to set her up on dates, which she deliberately torpedoes her chances with really awful makeup.
The title comes about with each character living on either side of Hennessy Road, and while their initial meeting set up by the parents and relatives over a Tim Sum meal is anything but a success, they soon hit it off as friends after a disastrous beginning to their friendship, and are in the know that they each both have feelings for another significant other rather than each other. For Loy, its the complication with his ex girlfriend (played by Maggie Cheung Ho Yee) who's now divorced and looking toward him as the one she allowed to get away. In Oi Lin's case, it's the countdown to the day her violent and hot headed boyfriend Xu (Andy On) finally gets out of prison for assault, but knowing this relationship is one that her relatives had frown upon and once asked that she move on.
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