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Nostalgia and Memory: Hong Kong Artist Sara Tse on Loss, Love, and Life

Posted on March 14, 2023March 14, 2023by Teahouse

Hong Kong artist Sara Tse’s extraordinary solo exhibit is a secular retrospective on impermanence, nostalgia, memory, and re-telling

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Refusing to See Reality in “In the Mood for Love”

Posted on February 9, 2018February 9, 2018by Teahouse

In the Mood for Love did for Hong Kong what La Dolce Vita did for Rome. Just as the Trevi Fountain was relatively unknown as a tourist spot before Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni’s iconic embrace, In the Mood for Love is a sensuous, colourful masterpiece that eroticizes cramped living spaces and romanticizes the gritty alleyways […]

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Identity in “In the Mood for Love” and “2046”

Posted on August 20, 2017April 7, 2020by Teahouse

When work on the film 2046 began before 2004, Hong Kong film star Tony Leung lobbied hard for director Wong Kar-wai to let him grow a mustache. This was because his character, Chow Mo-wan, was totally different to how he was in 2046‘s prequel In the Mood for Love: whereas Chow in Mood was a gentlemanly […]

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