A woman is revisited by the ghost of her ex-boyfriend, three years after a car crash took his life.
Cinematography
Hong Kong as liminal purgatory—beautiful and suffocating
Acting
Vic Chou's ghost boy is all longing and no chill
Direction
Johnnie To restrains himself to devastating effect
Director
Johnnie To
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Johnnie To made this between crime epics as a deliberate palette cleanser, calling it his 'uncommercial' film—which explains the 4.3 rating from baffled action fans.
The title 'Linger' translates the Chinese 蝴蝶飛 ('Butterfly Flies'), referencing the Zhuangzi dream parable—are we the ghost dreaming her, or her dreaming the ghost?
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