A wonderfully charming and bittersweet story about teenage friendship, idealist dreams and a city that transcend changing times, this rare Hong Kong-produced gem influenced by Hayao Miyazaki and Shunji Iwai sweeps with nostalgia. In search of an answer for her broken marriage, Gigi journeys into her shiny high school year memories only to discover a deeply hidden secret that will transform her life.
Direction
Adam Wong channels Iwai's dreamy fragmentation perfectly
Cinematography
Hong Kong's disappearing landscapes shot like memory itself
Acting
Miriam Yeung's midlife unraveling is devastatingly specific
Director
Adam Wong
Miriam Yeung Chin-Wah
Yu Fung-chi
Jan Lam Hoi-Fung
Pang Shing-wah
Cecilia So Lai-Shan
Young Yu Fung-chi
Neo Yau
Young Pang Shing-wah
Ng Siu-Hin
So Pok-man
Lam Tze-Chung
Au Yeung Hing-kin
Gill Mohindepaul Singh
Tak
Ronny Yuen
Tat
Bonnie Chiu Hok-Yee
May
Helen Tam Yuk-Ying
Deputy Principal Tam
Margaret Chung
Cindy Leung
Harriet Yeung Sze-Man
Ling
Patrick Kong Pak-Leung
Doug
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Hong Kong's 2014-2015 Umbrella Movement tensions, the film's nostalgia for disappearing spaces reads as quietly political mourning for a city being erased.
Director Adam Wong spent years developing this after his indie hit The Way We Dance; the Miyazaki influence comes through in the fantastical memory sequences that blur reality and idealized past.
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