Perhaps Love

Legendary director Peter Chan helms this lustrous musical which garnered a whopping 11 nominations at the Hong Kong Film Awards, winning 6 including Best Actress (Zhou Xun, The Banquet), Best Cinematography (Peter Pau, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon), Best Original Score and Best Original Song. Lin (Takeshi Kaneshiro, House Of The Flying Daggers) is a movie star shooting a musical about a love triangle directed by Nie Wen (Jacky Cheung), the charismatic paramour of Sun (Zhou), the film’s leading lady who is also Lin’s ex-lover. Reality and fantasy being to merge as Lin tries to rekindle Sun’s affections for him, under Nie’s grudging watch. Filled with dazzling song and dance sequences and sumptuous images, Perhaps Love pays tribute to the grand tradition of Hollywood musicals, and weaves a tale of bittersweet love.