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Echoes of the Rainbow

2010 · 117 min

A tender, nostalgic childhood memoir that slowly turns heartbreaking, watching a family's love hold against loss and time.

Directed by
Alex Law Kai-yui
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Tagline
Life was a hurricane in 1969. Love became the roof for a shoe-maker's family.
Overview
Told through the eyes of sticky-fingered eight-year-old boy Big Ears, Echoes of the Rainbow takes place in a close-knit grassroots community in 1960s Hong Kong. Big Ears' mother and father run the neighborhood shoe store, and his older brother Desmond is every family's dream son - an outstanding athlete with grades worthy of Hong Kong's best school.

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Directed by
Alex Law Kai-yui
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • warmstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • grief
  • coming-of-age
  • class
  • memory
Places
  • small town
  • home
  • hospital
Era
period
Audience
teen
Form
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour4
Realism8
Romance4
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity4
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
comedy, drama, romance
Directed by
Alex Law Kai-yui
Written by
Alex Law Kai-yui
Starring
Simon Yam, Sandra Ng Kwan-yu, Buzz Chung, Aarif Rahman, Evelyn Choi Wing-Yan, Paul Chun Pui, Teresa Ha Ping, Vincent Kok Tak-Chiu
Music
Henry Lai Wan-man
Cinematography
Charlie Lam Chi-kin
Runtime
117 min
Country
Hong Kong
Languages
Cantonese, Mandarin

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