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First of May (2017)
Directed by Lam Chi Yu
Drama · 21m
Mrs. Ho, a senile and distraught widow, lives by herself in a walk-up building. For more than half a century, Mrs. Ho has been living in her flat since she was married. But, after an accident, her legs went lame. Her son keeps persuading her to sell the flat and move into a building with lifts. She refuses and she wants to hold onto the flat, her only contact with her dead husband, where they used to do tap-dance together. Of course, they weren’t Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers but, the film makes touchingly clear, we need to listen to rhythm of their dance. More importantly, Mrs. Ho’s perseverance and strength recall the portrayal of another old woman – Ella Garth (Jo Van Fleet) in Elia Kazan’s masterpiece Wild River (1960).
Cast
Yeung Yee-Yee
Lo Chun-yip
Crew
- Director
- Lam Chi Yu
- Writer
- Lam Chi Yu
- Director of Photography
- Wong Wai Tung
- Producer
- Thisbe Law Hoi Lam, Wong Hui Wai
Details
- Original title
- 五月的第一天
- Release date
- 2017-03-18
- Runtime
- 21m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- CN
- Spoken languages
- Cantonese
- Countries
- Hong Kong
- Production
- Fresh Wave, Hong Kong Arts Development Council