I rewatched this on Christmas day with my good friend Jonathan, and spent the next few days trying to figure out how I would write about this film. Letterboxd has gone to shit over the holiday season, and so I finally felt motivated to start my own blog where I wrote an extended piece on the movie. I'd appreciate if it could be given a read, I'd transfer it straight here but I don't think it would look visually appealing on this site given its length, and I liked using stills to illustrate different points.
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Paper Marriage 1988
Happy birthday Maggie Cheung.
The gender politics here are unsurprisingly terrible (some of the shit Sammo puts her through in this is 😬). But there are fun hijinks to be had, especially in the final third which reminded me of some of the Jackie Chan films she was a part of from around this time.
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