Nian ni ru xi (Before We Fall In Love Again)
Posted by martinteller on March 29, 2009
James Lee needs to find his audience. This is the third thing I’ve seen by him, and I think they’re all great. This one (the start of his “love trilogy”) is the most straightforward of the ones I’ve seen: after a woman has vanished, her husband and her lover try to track her down. It packs a lot of charming little Truffaut-esque moments in their reminiscences, and has a slow but agreeable pace with just enough ambiguity to enhance the story without overshadowing it. I dunno, maybe I’m latching on to an obscure director just for the hell of it, but I really feel like there’s an undiscovered talent here whose iMDB ratings are a travesty. Somehow I’m gonna have to track down his other work. Rating: 8
