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Three single women experience the joys and hardships of urban living in the romantic comedy Between Tears and Laughter, produced by the popular Cathay Studios. Wang Lai is a divorced woman with an eight year-old son, who lives in an apartment representing three different generations of women. Aside from Wang Lai, the apartment houses Li Mei, a novelist still grieving for her dead lover, and Kitty Ding Hao, a young, feisty office lady. A gentleman pen pal (Qiao Hong) arrives from Singapore to visit Kitty, but he instead makes overtures towards the older, more mature Li Mei. Complicating matters is Kitty's cousin Tien Ching, who's upset because he feels he has some claim to Kitty's heart. Meanwhile, Wang Lai's husband (Yeung Chi Hing) reinserts himself into her life, but she's more concerned with her son, who's in the hospital with polio. Finding themselves as comrades and competitors, the three women must find the personal strength to move forward in their separate, yet intertwined lives. Director Tang Huang (Her Tender Heart) brings pleasant humor and a sensitive storytelling hand to Between Tears and Laughter, an endearing film that accurately represents the popular female-centric films from Cathay Studios!
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Product Title: Between Tears And Laughter 玉樓三鳳 玉楼叁凤 Between Tears And Laughter Between Tears And Laughter
Artist Name(s): Ding Hao | Wang Lai | Li Mei 丁皓 | 王萊 | 李眉 丁皓 | 王莱 | Li Mei Ding Hao | Wang Lai | Li Mei Ding Hao | Wang Lai | Li Mei
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Release Date: 2003-10-27
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Picture Format: NTSC What is it?
Disc Format(s): DVD
Region Code: 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan) What is it?
Publisher: Panorama (HK)
Package Weight: 90 (g)
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1002914960

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導演:唐煌
Director: Tang Huang

  三個A級的女人!
  三段�葥j路轉的情事!
  男人愛女人;女人不靠男人!
  一篇現代都市女性的獨立宣言!

  都市處境喜劇一向是「電懋」最擅長的類型,《玉樓三鳳》特別的地方,卻是以三個都會單身女子共租一個玩代住宅單位為題,很可能是香港電影裡最早描述單身女性獨立的作品之一,再次反映出「電懋」對社的敏銳觸覺。三名女角(失婚婦人王萊、曾經滄海的女作家李湄、任性妄為的OL丁皓),分別代表了老、中、青三代,她們的感情糾葛,在片中都有著細膩傳神的刻劃。本片由「亞洲影展」最佳編劇汪榴照執筆,配合著導演唐煌(《玉女私情》、《雲裳艷后》、《六月新娘》)自然流暢的鏡頭調度,有著水準以上的成績。

  Urban romantic comedy has always been a genre in which MP&GI excelled. What is special about Between Tears and Laughter is its subject matter: the joys and sorrows of three single women who shared a modern apartment in Hong Kong, a "phenomenon" that was quite unusual, if not rare, for females in the early sixties. The three protagonists, played by Wang Lai (a divorced woman with her eight-year-old son), Helen Li Mei (a lovelorn novelist) and Kitty Ding Hao (a capricious and headstrong office lady), represent three generations of females. Written with wit and intelligence by the award-winning Wang Liuzhou, and directed with great humour and subtle mise-sen-scene by Tang Huang (Her Tender Heart, Sister Long Legs), the film is arguably a minor classic of MP&GI.


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Average Customer Rating for this Edition: Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10 (1)

Anonymous

November 14, 2003

BRAVA Li Mei !!!!!! BRAVA Wang Lai !!! Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10
BETWEEN TEARS AND LAUGHTER did not make a great splash
when it was first released, but watching it nowadays,
I can't help but realized how much Li Mei was MISSED.
One of Cathay's glamorous stars in the 50s-60s, her
star tend to dimmed among the other more luminous
actresses such as Ge Lan , Lin Dai etc. But, if you watch carefully, you will notice that Li Mei has a VERY
subtle seductiveness, her allure was her rich,deep voice (i.e,SEXY with a capital S !), her body language
was always so provocative and given a non-temptress role she can STILL exude sensuality and intelligence at the SAME time ! Li is a RARE breed indeed, one can
say she was like the eastern equivalent of a Lana Turner or Ava Gardner but neither of these glamour queens can't hold a candle light beside Li for her wit
and intelligence. She seemed world weary yet caring,
mischevous yet serious---she is plainly put: A WOMAN !
In this movie the three actresses has a script they can sink their teeth into, if only roles like these were more plentiful then ! Wang Lai, the solid character
actress of many Cathay movies gave her usual moving
interpretation of a woman torned between regret and
hope for the future. A simple story made very special
by a trio of wonderful actresses. Let us have more Li Mei movies SOON !!!
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