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MY HEART IS THAT ETERNAL ROSE
1989
Director
Patrick Tam
Starring
Joey Wong
Kenny Bee
Chan Wai-Man
Tony Leung
Runtime
91 minutes
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Rick (Kenny Bee) and Lap (Joey Wong) are just two lovebirds enjoying a simple life working at a seaside bar as MY HEART IS THAT ETERNAL ROSE opens. But when Joey’s father - a former Triad member coerced out of retirement - botches a smuggling job alongside Rick, Joey must seek the help of a rival boss to save him. The two lovers separate, promising to meet again soon. Flash forward six years, and Lap is the godfather’s mistress while Rick is a professional assassin hiding in the Philippines. Things get complicated when Rick is assigned a hit job back in Hong Kong where he finds his old flame nestled reluctantly in the arms of the godfather. But Rick and Lap are still in love. Adding extra spice, Rick’s younger best friend (a very early turn by Tony Leung) is also in love with her, yet loyal to the godfather. Bullets, loyalty, and love will shape everyone’s destiny and set the scene for a heady concoction of romantic pop cinema and incendiary violence.
Directed by Patrick Tam, Wong Kar-Wai’s mentor and a key figure of the Hong Kong new wave, shot by venerated co-cinematographers Christopher Doyle and David Chung, and with music by Danny Chung (HAPPY TOGETHER), this neon-drenched romantic melodrama looks and sounds more lush than ever in a lavish new 2K restoration.
“If you are longing for that fuzzy, neon-drenched niche between Wong Kar-Wai’s melodrama and John Woo’s heroic bloodshed, then Patrick Tam is your man!” - Christina Li
“A true romance, a tragedy about people who are constantly finding themselves in traps where the only way out is to sacrifice their body for the person they love. Also contains one of the more unforgettable images in film history: Gordon Liu wearing red pants and a gold jacket, sitting cross-legged and sleazy and eating a banana, fanning himself with his own toupee.” - Sean Gilman
FOR FANS OF: doomed love, neon modernism, Miami Vice synths and vapors, standing still while firing guns, slow-mo Canto-pop, Tony Leung puppy dog eyes, the cinema of Johnnie To, Benny Chan’s A MOMENT OF ROMANCE, Tsui Hark’s TIME AND TIDE, Ng Man-Tat cameos, stopping to smell the roses
Directed by Patrick Tam, Wong Kar-Wai’s mentor and a key figure of the Hong Kong new wave, shot by venerated co-cinematographers Christopher Doyle and David Chung, and with music by Danny Chung (HAPPY TOGETHER), this neon-drenched romantic melodrama looks and sounds more lush than ever in a lavish new 2K restoration.
“If you are longing for that fuzzy, neon-drenched niche between Wong Kar-Wai’s melodrama and John Woo’s heroic bloodshed, then Patrick Tam is your man!” - Christina Li
“A true romance, a tragedy about people who are constantly finding themselves in traps where the only way out is to sacrifice their body for the person they love. Also contains one of the more unforgettable images in film history: Gordon Liu wearing red pants and a gold jacket, sitting cross-legged and sleazy and eating a banana, fanning himself with his own toupee.” - Sean Gilman
FOR FANS OF: doomed love, neon modernism, Miami Vice synths and vapors, standing still while firing guns, slow-mo Canto-pop, Tony Leung puppy dog eyes, the cinema of Johnnie To, Benny Chan’s A MOMENT OF ROMANCE, Tsui Hark’s TIME AND TIDE, Ng Man-Tat cameos, stopping to smell the roses