Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996)

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Set against the backdrop of post-reform migration, Comrades: Almost a Love Story frames romance within the uncertainties of mobility and economic survival. Following two mainland migrants in Hong Kong, the film explores love as contingent, delayed and shaped by structural forces. Popular music functions as an affective archive, binding personal longing to a shared cultural memory in a city defined by transience. The film enduring resonance lies in its articulation of love under conditions of mobility, precarity and deferred belonging.

Rating

M

Duration

118 min

Country

Hong Kong

Language

Cantonese, Mandarin, English

Cast

Maggie Cheung, Leon Lai, Eric Tsang

Director

Peter Ho-Sun Chan

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