Sunday Feb 8

6 PM
DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART (Daan gyun naam Yu)
D: Johnnie To, C: Louis Koo, Yuanyuan Gao, Daniel Wu, HK 2011, 115 min., 35mm on DCP, Cantonese/Mandarin OwES – GP

The story is an old-fashioned love triangle about a businesswoman torn between a shy architect and her go-getter boss, and To uses Hong Kong’s steel-and-glass skyscrapers to convey not only the characters’ outsize desires but the public repercussions of their mistakes. – Chicago Reader

The love triangle of picky and increasingly undecisive Zixin and her two suitors Shenran and Qihong stages a magnificent comeback in one of the most inventive romantic comedies of recent memory.

Cultural sets of assessment are created by aesthetics that become incorporated in concepts of “good taste”. To oppose dominant aesthetics has a large tradition within the history of art. We will shed of all bias and explore what is often defined as secular to find traces of identity, culture, individual expression.

Participants
Scott Foundas (Critic, Variety, USA) – Maggie Lee (Critic, Variety, Hong Kong) – Heike-Melba Fendel (PR and talent agent, journalist, Germany)
Moderation: Dunja Bialas and Frédéric Jaeger