Les Belles

Absolutely no money or resources was spared in this musical romance captured in glorious Shawscope in which Doe Ching and his cast unleashed their talents in spectacular ways. Peter Chen Ho and Linda Lin Dai are involved in a love–hate relationship as the leading star and the impresario of a musical theatre troupe who are engaged in constant squabbling but develop an amorous relationship through a series of anonymous billets-doux. All's well that ends well and their problems melt away on the dance floor. Linda Lin Dai dazzles with her elaborate dance routines of the Can-can and the Mambo, performed with sheer verve and energy and as much grace and poise as the Chinese flower-drum dance, Japanese Sakura dance and traditional Thai dance for the gods in later scenes, that proved worthy of her third Best Actress Asian Film Award. Utilising the Shawscope to impressive effect, Doe Ching's masterpiece is a visual spectacle in more ways than one. Like an impressionist painting on canvas, the scene of ‘Meeting by the Lotus Pond' is rendered in such luscious colours and textures of springtime that easily rivals nature's own.
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Date	Time	Venue
5/3/2017 (Sun)#	2:00pm	Cinema, Hong Kong Film Archive

# Post-screening talk with Joyce Yang

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