Desire of the Heart
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- Movie: Desires of the Heart / Desire of the Heart
- Chinese: 桃花运 (Tao Hua Yun)
- Director: Liwen Ma
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- Release Date: November 20, 2008
- Runtime:
- Language: Mandarin
- Country: China
Plot
Female p.o.v. is established at the start as the five characters introduce themselves. There’s 28-year-old virgin Zhang Ying (Mei Ting, touching), who despairs of ever finding a man; ambitious Xiaomei (Li Xiaolu, super-cute), who’ll only marry a man with plenty of green; and shy Lin Cong (Song Jia, mellow), who’s inherited a bundle but keeps it quiet when auditioning suitors.
More circumspect about getting hitched again are two older divorcees: single mother Ye Shengying (Wu, deglammed), who enrolls at a dating agency, and mid-50s boutique owner Gao Yajuan (Yuen Chau), who’s enjoying her new freedom.
Each woman’s romantic entanglement has a slightly different tone. But smooth cross-cutting among the stories surprisingly never jars, largely thanks to the way in which the thesps manage to give basic stereotypes an appealing face. -- Variety
Cast
- You Ge
- Bingbing Fan
- Vivian Wu
- Shan Cong
- Jin Chen
- Yihong Duan
- Chen Li
- Le Geng
- Ting Mei
- Xiaolu Li
- Jia Song
Trailer
Film Festivals
- 2009 (11th) Udine Far East Film - April 24th-May 2nd (International Premiere)
