Hua yue jia qi (Love in the Time of Twilight)

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Audience Member Crrrazy. "A Christmas Carol" meets "Three's Company". This movie is genius filmmaker Tsui Hark's version of Back to the Future 2, with more romantic themes like Groundhog Day but more zany themes like Beetlejuice. And a few more movies sprang to mind from the 80s & early 90s. If this is sounding good and you're reading this, you should be checkin' it out. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member What if Nicolaj Tesla filmed Back to the Future mixed with Ghost mixed with Beetlejuice in HK? Love in the time of twilight would happen, off course. Despite all the flicks named, it's different from everything you may have seen - or everything considered sane by your friends, at least. If your idea of a love story leans toward acid trips, like me, here you'll have enough to feel high and wasted, mate. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member sometimes makes me confuse since it use a lot of "back-flash" Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member touching~ I like it very much~ Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Personally, I call this film, Shanghai Blues (1984), and Beijing Opera Blues (1986) as "Tsui Hark's Nostalgia Trilogy." Three of them set in pre-wprld war II 1930s China and are filled with Hark's admiration to the mood of that age. "Love in the Time of Twilight" is the film Hark comes back to his origin after 10 years of big successful career as the director and producer of so many popular film series like "Once Upon a Time in China" series. Besides the prior two films, this one also has full of fantastic ideas and original sense of humour, and Hark suggests another concept of a time-traveling love-story. Hark features Charlie Yeung and Nicky Wu, who played a couple in "Butterfly Lovers" which he made right before this film. Their performances are not great, but fresh and pleasant to watch. Hark's direction to strengthen the sense of nostalgia by music and set decolation works well here again, although usual Hong Kong cheap SFXs deadens the elegant atmosphere. I can guess making this kind of film is such a tough work which requires you to plan real hard before shooting, so it's worth to respect in that point, even though some scenes look little bit too absurd. I love Tsui Hark making this kind of film the most among many other types of films he makes. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member One of my childhood favorite romantic movies. the storyline is creative, romantic, intense & funny! And there's great chemistry b/w Nicky Wu & Charlie Yeung. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews

Hua yue jia qi (Love in the Time of Twilight)

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