Hold You Tight (film)

Hold You Tight 愈快樂愈墮落
Hold You Tight 愈快樂愈墮落
Directed by	Stanley Kwan
Written by	Jimmy Ngai; Elmond Yeung
Produced by	Raymond Chow
Starring	Sunny Chan
Cinematography	Kwan Pung-Leung
Edited by	Maurice Li
Music by	Keith Leung; Yat-Yiu Yu
Production; company	Kwan's Creative Workshop
Distributed by	Pony Canyon
Release date	February 14, 1998 (Hong Kong);
Running time	94 min
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese

Hold You Tight (Chinese: 愈快樂愈墮落; pinyin: Yù kuàilè yù duòluò) is a 1998 Hong Kong romantic drama film directed by Stanley Kwan.^[1] The film features full-frontal male nudity.^[2]

It is Stanley Kwan's seventh feature film, and he says that his previous two documentaries A Personal Memoir of Hong Kong and Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema had strong influences on making this film: "Both of them evolved from my thoughts on family background and upbringing, my career as a filmmaker, my sexual orientation and my identity as a Chinese man living in a British colony. The film was written for Hong Kong actress Chingmy Yau who plays two roles, a young executive and a worldly boutique owner."^[3]

Cast[edit]

Chingmy Yau as Ah Moon/Rosa Gao
Sunny Chan as Fung Wai
Eric Tsang as Tong
Lawrence Ko as A-che
Sandra Ng Kwan Yue as Video Dealer
Tony Rayns as Rosa's Friend

Awards[edit]

In 1998, Hold You Tight won the FIPRESCI Prize — Special Mention and Silver Screen Award for Best Actor at the Singapore International Film Festival, the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Alfred Bauer Prize and Teddy Award at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival.^[4] The following year, it won the Award of the Pestalozzi Children's Village Foundation at the Fribourg International Film Festival and the Film of Merit award at the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards.^[5]

References[edit]

^ Bhob Stewart (2015). "Hold You Tight". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 24 May 2015.
^ Kwan's patchy epic loses its grip. Paul Fonoroff. Publisher: South China Morning Post (in English). Published: 13 March 1998. Retrieved: 18 April 2014.
^ "Wettbewerb/In Competition". Moving Pictures, Berlinale Extra. Berlin. 11–22 February 1998. p. 22.
^ "Berlinale: 1998 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
^ "Awards for Yue kuai le, yue duo luo". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 18 January 2008.

External links[edit]

Hold You Tight at IMDb
Hold You Tight at AllMovie

[NYT-1] Bhob Stewart (2015). "Hold You Tight". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 24 May 2015.

[2] Kwan's patchy epic loses its grip. Paul Fonoroff. Publisher: South China Morning Post (in English). Published: 13 March 1998. Retrieved: 18 April 2014.

[mov-3] "Wettbewerb/In Competition". Moving Pictures, Berlinale Extra. Berlin. 11–22 February 1998. p. 22.

[Berlinale-4] "Berlinale: 1998 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 23 January 2012.

[5] "Awards for Yue kuai le, yue duo luo". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 18 January 2008.

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1990s	Coming Out (1990) Poison (1991) Together Alone (1992) Wittgenstein (1993) Go Fish (1994) The Last Supper (1995) The Watermelon Woman (1996) All Over Me (1997) Hold You Tight (1998) Show Me Love (1999)
2000s	Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) Walking on Water (2002) A Thousand Clouds of Peace (2003) Wild Side (2004) A Year Without Love (2005) The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (2006) Spider Lilies (2007) The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela (2008) Raging Sun, Raging Sky (2009)
2010s	The Kids Are All Right (2010) Absent (2011) Keep the Lights On (2012) In the Name of (2013) The Way He Looks (2014) Nasty Baby (2015) Tomcat (2016) A Fantastic Woman (2017) Hard Paint (2018) Brief Story from the Green Planet (2019)
2020s	No Hard Feelings (2020) Miguel's War (2021) Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter (2022) All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White (2023) All Shall Be Well (2024)

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