This is Cantonese cinema à la French New Wave. Christmas eve, 1967, in a lonesome café, a writer (Patrick Tse Yin) recalls his romance with a mysterious girl (Josephine Siao Fong-fong) that started four years ago to the date. They quickly fall in love but on the day of their engagement, she disappears without a trace. A year later, he finds out that the girl is a taxi dancer, already married to an ex-con and drug addict (Lung Kong) who happens to be his childhood friend...Chor Yuen adds to his storytelling European touches such as stylish flashbacks, loaded symbolisms and modern cityscapes, fostering a distinctively Hong Kong narrative style at once ersatz western and makeover Chinese. An ambitious attempt to rework a familiar genre at a time when Cantonese cinema was going through accelerating decline.

# Post-screening talk with director Stanley Kwan; Moderator: Manfred Wong
＊ Post-screening talk with director Stanley Kwan; Moderator: Sam Ho

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