2015 Directed by Emily Ting
In this sparkling romance, Ruby, a Chinese American toy designer from LA, visits Hong Kong for the first time on business. Finding herself stranded, she meets Josh, an American expat who shows her the city.
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Maybe this was the right film and the right time for me or something, but I just REALLY loved this one. If I were to describe "my kind of film", it would be something exactly like this - a lot of dialogue, very little action. I have never had any sort of desire to travel to Hong Kong, but after seeing this one, Hong Kong just got a place on my places-to-visit list. The cast is great, the chemistry between them is incredible and I love how the dialogue mixes humor with discussion about culture, heritage, and so on. I like to travel alone, I guess in some sense this film fills that dream of traveling and meeting someone you instantly connect with. The ending is also pure perfection and something I always get very excited about when I see it used in films.
It is not perfect, but it was perfect for me at this moment in time.
Emily Ting’s It’s Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong is a different kind of fantasy, one of ex-patriates in Hong Kong and, more distressingly, of indie filmmakers weaned on Before Sunrise. Jamie Chung plays an American from Los Angeles (her grandparents emigrated from Hong Kong) lost in the city who runs into a fellow American named Josh. He’s the Joshiest Josh in film history, working in finance but really, an aspiring novelist. Actor Bryan Greenberg looks like the child of Michael Rappaport and John Krasczinski, but with even worse hair than that implies. He shows her around, lets slip way too late in the evening that he has a girlfriend and the couple splits. . . only to reunite a year…
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Film #2 of 30 in my March Around The World | 2018 Challenge (Hong Kong)
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For her feature film debut, writer-director Emily Ting brings us a romance set in Hong Kong. She shows us the cityscape. the crowded streets, the glaring neon signs, the bustling restaurants, the traffic, and settles the camera on a bar about 11pm on a Friday evening. That's where an expatriate New Yorker named Joshua 'Josh' Rosenberg (Brian Greenberg) in a collared shirt and loose necktie overhears Chinese-American visitor Ruby Lin (Jamie Chung) talking on her cell phone.
Ruby's trying to get directions to Lan Kwau Fong, where her friend is waiting for her, when she loses reception. Josh offers to walk her there.…
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I haven't seen many movies about expatriate life, so this really hit home. that feeling of being in a new metropolis, the glamour and glow of Asian cities can be overwhelming at times. but finding the right people is what makes the journey so special.
that was so deep, but I truly do love Hong Kong.
Reminded me of being in film school and having a peer present their short film after having just watched the Before Trilogy for the first time.
I also don’t quite understand how an actual married couple could have so little chemistry.
Really enjoyed this! Believable and short and sweet. Good dialogue makes the world go round.
It is cleverly written dialogue that enough cover mainstream topic without reaching cliche meter.
A film that is quite enough to make you feel comfy at night watching on bed.
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