Spencer Lam – Heroic Cinema https://www.heroic-cinema.com The guide to Asian movies in Australia Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:06:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 18894642 Herbal Tea (2004) https://www.heroic-cinema.com/reviews/herbal-tea-2004/ Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:06:32 +0000 http://www.heroic-cinema.com/reviews/herbal-tea-2004/ The joke was going to be that I wasn’t going to mention Chungking Express.

Well, all hail B’doom-ch’nk, the god of obvious punchlines.

Watching Herbal Tea, it is pretty hard to not draw some parallels with Wong Kar Wai’s debut masterpiece – but not for anything particularly praiseworthy or innovative. Just the plotline of the third story in CKE is quite closely aligned to that in Herbal Tea.

(For those not familiar with Faye Wong’s debut performance … (read more)

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