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Everlasting Regret

2005 · 106 min

A slow, wistful drift through a woman's life against a changing city, beautiful and quietly heartbreaking.

Overview
A person's life is destined to be shorter than that of a city. Having spent her whole life in Shanghai, Qiyao has her moments of prosperity and her fair share of loneliness. She finally fades and disappears but Shanghai remains a metropolitan city. Shanghai in the 1930s is glamorous and seductive.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • aging
  • loneliness
  • identity
  • memory
  • love
Places
  • big city
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour1
Realism7
Romance6
Tension3
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama, romance
Directed by
Stanley Kwan Kam-pang
Written by
Gong Xiangdong, Elmond Yeung Chi-Sam
Starring
Sammi Cheng Sau-Man, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Hu Jun, Daniel Wu, Huang Jue, Su Yan, Wu Hai-Re, Huang Yi
Music
Brother Hung
Cinematography
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Runtime
106 min
Country
Hong Kong, China
Languages
Mandarin

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