Love & Sex of Eastern
Hollywood
Director: Aman Chang
Year: 1998
Rating: 5.5
Wake me up when it's over.
A totally fatuous film that follows the lives of five shallow young women
trying to make their way in the HK chic set - with men lining up to pay their
way.
Apparently, the characters are modeled after real HK personalities. So we
have: Selena (Paulyn Suen) married to a rich singer and she cheats on her
husband in the bed of a dying friend with her husband - a so called "monkey
affair"; Maggie (Kathy Chow) an actress with a jealous boyfriend who then
gets financially swindled by a later boyfriend; Hung (Karen Yeung) an unsuccessful
singer who ends up going to a Brunei type country to be a Royal family prostitute;
Hing (Angie Cheung) another actress who gets breast implants to do Category
III films and finally Athena Chu whose boyfriend dumps her and she falls
into the arms of a waiting lesbian.
Now these women are all
very lovely - and that really is the only reason to watch this since their
characters are tedious or idiotic and their stories not any better. I have
read elsewhere that the Athena Chu character is modeled after Sandra Ng,
Hing after Veronica Yip and Maggie - well lets just say she ends up with
a French director! Her boyfriend (played by Sunny Chan) is suppose to be
Derek Yee and the cheated upon husband is based on Kenny Bee and his wife.
Athena's boyfriend (read Sandra Ng) is suppose to be Alex To who broke Sandra's
heart in the early 90's.
A warning label about brain
rot should come with this film, but it is not too unkindly on the eyes.
