An Autumn's Tale 4K 1987

If you look at Chow Yun-Fat's recent work, it's quite obvious that his best roles were left far behind in the 80s. No, I'm not talking about the John Woo action movies that made him famous all over the world, but about his 'pre-Killer' period. Only then he was the most natural, liberated and bright. And this picture, undoubtedly arousing nostalgia, is just one of them. Now that golden time is irretrievably gone.

This is the second and most romantic movie of the “immigrant trilogy” directed by Mabel Cheung. The movie is vital, luminous, imbued with light sadness and joy. It makes you feel good in your soul. And this feeling is only strengthened thanks to the beautiful and melodic music by Lowell Lo (the song 'Goodbye Autumn' is especially memorable). I will note that the picture is one of the 100 best Chinese films of the century according to the Hong Kong Film Awards.

But the main advantage of this movie, of course, was, truly great here Chow Yun-Fat. His character is mischievous, lively and indefatigable. Unlike the heroine Cheri Cheung, experiencing on the screen a whole palette of different emotions (not without reason received a prize in Taiwan for the best role). But Chery Cheung herself looked a bit bland against Yun-Fat's background. Which, however, did not spoil the overall impression of the movie....