Those Were the Days



Director: Eric Tsang
Year: 1996
Rating: 7.5

Minnie (Loletta Lee) is getting married and her three friends from childhood come over the night before to reminisce. Most of the film thus is a flashback to their youth (all  obviously played by different actresses) with occasional reversions back to the present. And it is just as well because their life as teenagers is much more interesting and amusing than their fairly dull adult existence.

It's kind of a HK "My So Called Life" as we see Minnie go through her teenage years - first lesbian flirtation, first love, first bra, first kiss, first grope and of course first heart break. All done in a very sweet amusing nostalgic way. It is a very enjoyable film for this kind of thing with good performances from Eric Tsang as her father and from the girl who plays Minnie. A UFO production.