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July Rhapsody (2002)
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Original name: 男人四十
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Lam Yiu Kwok, a Hong Kong secondary school teacher is facing a mid-life crisis. While he has only his pride and Chinese poetry to fall back on, his peers are successful businessmen and professionals who flaunt their extravagant lifestyles at reunion dinners. After many years, Lam is still living in a modest apartment with his wife, Man Ching and two teenage sons. However financial stagnancy is not his only problem. An old flame of Man Ching (who was the couple's former schoolteacher) returns to Hong Kong and uncovers old wounds. Man Ching feels obliged to help her ex-lover. Meanwhile, Yiu Kwok faces another dilemma: Choy Lam, a precocious student, has a crush on him and the 'forbidden fruit' looks more and more tempting in the light of his wife's 'infidelity'. Will he succumb to young charms and let history repeat itself?
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, emotional, sentimental, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
love triangle, love affair, moral dilemma, youth, teachers and students, love and romance, midlife crisis, fall in love, couples, tragic love, infidelity, family problems, breakup, dishonesty, high school, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, professor, high school life, contests and competitions, terminal illness, supernatural romance, bittersweet, teacher, male female relationship ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
hong kong
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