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All About Women: Sex and the Chinese city
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China's own Sex and The City is the obvious way to describe the romantic comedy, All About Women. Instead of four single women in Manhattan, however, imagine three in Beijing. Tsui Hark's stylish, hilarious adventure probes trendy, contemporary Beijing through three encounters in the lives and loves of three modern yet very different, young women.

Zhou Xun plays a radiologist, who is addicted to analyzing male patients' statistics and analyzing love based on her scientific theory. Big mushroom heads and exaggerated sunglasses are used to increase the fun. Kwai Lun-mei, who starred in Taiwan singer Jay Chou's self-directorial film Secret, transforms from an innocent to a sassy girlfriend who is fascinated by internet dating. Kitty Zhang plays a rich senior executive of a large investment bank. A sickly looking university professor appears in her life.

The film marks a drastic departure from Tsui's earlier works, which focused heavily on martial arts, such as Green Snack and the recent Seven Swords. Hong Kong cinema's preeminent creative force for the last two decades shows no signs of slowing down in his 50s.

Fit Lover, the sequel to last year's hit Call for Love, repeats the romantic theme. The star-studded film has 12 of the country's best-looking actors and one Hong Kong beauty, Karena Lam. The story centers on Nie Bing, a 29-year-old white-collar lady played by Lam, who is given a magic car by a mischievous angel. Each time she drives it, a different handsome man appears. Nie is obsessed with trying to find the ideal man before her 30th birthday but she eventually realizes her Mr. Right has always been right beside her.

Desires of the Heart, another romantic comedy, follows a middle-aged professor (Ge Yuo), whose romance with an unmarried mother (Vivian Wu) is complicated by the arrival of two other young women. Chinese actors Fan Bingbing, Li Xiaolu, Mei Ting and Guo Tao also star.

Other current films include:

Mei Lanfang, or Forever Enthralled. The movie vividly captures the life of Chinese Peking opera master Mei Lanfang (played by Leon Lai). Mei Lanfang's son, Mei Baojiu, appreciated the film so much that he's banned any other director from adapting his father's story for the next 50 years. Also starring Zhang Ziyi and Sun Honglei.

Next has Nicolas Cage playing a Las Vegas magician who can see two minutes into the future. When a terrorist group threatens to destroy Los Angeles with nuclear weapons, an FBI agent (Julianne Moore) does everything she can to recruit his help. Jessica Biel plays his future girlfriend that he may never get to meet.

Hong Kong action film Beast Stalker follows a policeman who accidentally killed a female public prosecutor's daughter while chasing a criminal. Now he needs to help her track down another villain for atonement.

(China Daily December 15, 2008)

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