12 Nights (2000) Hong Kong Film starring Cecilia Cheung Pak-Chi and Eason Chan
The other night, I was browsing my friend’s movie collection and came across one of the first Asian films I became fond of from a decade back: 12 Nights (2000). My initial viewing was at the Denver Asian Film Festival of 2000. At that particular time, I was preparing to travel to Southeast Asia for the first time on a journey to explore my Asian roots. This movie represented somewhat of a fertilizer for the seed of Asian passion and romance which was planted within back when.
I was quite impressed with 12 Nights (directed by Aubrey Lam Oi-Wah and produced by Peter Chan Ho-Sun) when I first saw ten years ago, and viewing it again recently inspired me to write a quick promotional for others who may be interested in seeing this worthy contemporary Asian relationship film.
Exactly as the title suggests, the film is structured into twelve (non-consecutive) nights of a particular relationship taking the span over roughly a year. Each Night or scene represents a stage in the relationship between flight attendant, Jeannie ( Cecilia Cheung Pak-Chi) and businessman, Alan (Eason Chan), from the very first night when the two strangers are first acquainted via friends at a Christmas/Birthday party on through the other eleven nights, packed with passion, egos, devotion, jealousy, insecurity selfishness, regret, boredom, makeup and breakup.
Scattered throughout the first half of the film in between scenes are words of wisdom related to the proceeding scene-night. For example, the film kicks off with love disappointment scene followed by “Love is like a disease, the sooner you get over it, the better,” while the second night is introduced with “Only people in love believe they were destined to meet.”
As is the art and nature of Eastern literature and arts, this film comes to no concrete happy or sad ending, but rather completes a cycle, leaving open room for the continuation in ones mind.
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January 22nd, 2010 at 11:49 am
A review/overview of the film 12 Nights
January 22nd, 2010 at 11:54 am
Another brief review/movie fact sheet
January 22nd, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Here is another cinematic interlinked resource of the film with images/links to stars’ profiles / cinematic scores.