Edmund Lee
Film Editor and Reporter at South China Morning Post
Film Editor at South China Morning Post @SCMPNews. A fan of Hong Kong cinema.
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6 days ago |
scmp.com | Edmund Lee
2.5/5 starsThe dehumanising tendency of corporate finance and the merciless nature of stock market speculation serve as the basis for much of the drama in A Gilded Game, a mildly diverting film presumably made for viewers who won’t mind its predictably moralistic lecturing tone.
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1 week ago |
scmp.com | Edmund Lee
2.5/5 starsThe inspiring true story behind the founding of an iconic Hong Kong food brand receives a largely uninspired retelling in The Dumpling Queen, a glossy if unabashedly melodramatic and run-of-the-mill biopic set primarily in the city in the late 1970s and 80s.
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2 weeks ago |
scmp.com | Edmund Lee
3.5/5 starsIn Vital Signs, the converging career paths of two ambulance paramedics at very different stages in their lives provide the unusual backdrop for a soul-searching drama rooted in today’s Hong Kong, with characters pondering the essence of home as they reluctantly face a wave of emigration from the city.
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3 weeks ago |
scmp.com | Edmund Lee
3/5 starsIt is all doom and gloom for the first-time mother at the heart of Montages of a Modern Motherhood, a meticulously observed and wonderfully acted drama but one that may not connect with a wider audience because of its unusual, and almost perverse, resolve to paint new parenthood as a completely joyless experience.
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3 weeks ago |
scmp.com | Edmund Lee
Even if the filmmakers behind The Last Dance and Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In were to shock everyone and take home zero trophies at the end of the 43rd Hong Kong Film Awards (HKFA) ceremony this Sunday, it is safe to assume they would still feel like winners.
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The Dumpling Queen movie review: Andrew Lau depicts founding of a Hong Kong food brand https://t.co/zGmjzXDK58 via @SCMPNews
Vital Signs movie review: Louis Koo, Neo Yau play ambulance paramedics in wistful drama https://t.co/6CWUWF7Wyg via @SCMPNews
Montages of a Modern Motherhood movie review: Hedwig Tam shines as an exhausted new mother https://t.co/e42UMfEpTN via @SCMPNews