OzAsia Festival – Love in the Buff – 4K

By Julia Loipersberger

One of the latest movies to come out of Hong Kong, this delightful sequel to ‘Love in a Puff’ is a romantic comedy which follows the lives of Cherie (Miriam Yeung Chin Wah) and Jimmy (Shawn Yue) after the closing credits of the initial film.

Having met and fallen in love in their native Hong Kong, the two lovers try – and fail – to settle into a domestic routine. Jimmy is a perennial teenage boy who admits he hasn’t changed since high school and who loves putting dry ice in the toilet to watch the smoke pour out. Cherie, meanwhile, is trying to make a grown up life for the two of them and reminisces about her teenage love affair with popular movie star Ekin Cheng (playing himself). Things between the two of them finally snap when Jimmy changes the location of a barbeque which Cherie has arranged with her friends and family so that he can incorporate it into a photography shoot with the advertising agency he works for.

After their relationship has ended, Jimmy finally takes his boss up on a job offer in the ‘big smoke’ and moves to Beijing. Six months later, Cherie, a cosmetics salesgirl, is also transferred to Beijing, and within days of moving there runs into Jimmy – along with his new girlfriend, the stunning You You (played tenderly and delicately by gorgeous Mini Yang). Predictably, this unravels a whole series of emotions for the two former lovers. Is either of them really over the other? Is it time for Jimmy and Cherie to re-evaluate what it is they want from their lives, and move on with more compatible partners?

A highly entertaining comedy set against the backdrop of modern Hong Kong and Beijing, this film strikes a chord in all the right places, with an extremely able cast of supporting actors interweaving  their own romantic disasters  and successes.

Truly a movie made for the modern love lives of singles in 2012, this film will have both local and global appeal, and is certainly a delightful way to while away two hours.

Kryztoff rating   4K

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