My Family

We see the times have truly changed with this Lunar New Year comedy by renowned writer Clifton Ko and D&B Films. Instead of issues surrounding marriage and social inequality in the working class, we now follow a happy middle-class family and the problems that each family member encounters. Patriarch Dr. Ng (Richard Ng) is frugal and petty, but his wife (Fung Bobo) is the polar opposite and often spoils their three children. While the three children distress over love and romance, Mrs. Ng decides to venture out of her mundane housewife life and take up stage acting. Fung breaks out of the housewife cliché and creates a new modern image for women, while the younger characters have become more independent and clever. The film also reflects the modernisation of Hong Kong society in general, as it shifts from a city of hardworking laborers to a glamorous metropolis whose emerging middle-class can live in a comfortable lifestyle.

Date	Time	Venue
26/1/2014 (Sun)	4:30pm	Cinema, Hong Kong Film Archive
14/2/2014 (Fri)	7:00pm	Cinema, Hong Kong Film Archive

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