Love in a Puff
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Profile
- Movie: Love in a Puff
- Chinese: 志明與春嬌 (Chi ming yu chun giu)
- Director: Ho-Cheung Pang
- Writer: Heiward Mak, Ho-Cheung Pang
- Producer: Subi Liang, Ho-Cheung Pang
- Cinematographer: Jason Kwan
- World Premiere: March 24, 2010 (Hong Kong International Film Festival)
- Release Date: March 25, 2010
- Runtime: 95 min.
- Language: Cantonese
- Country: Hong Kong
Plot
Since 2007, the Hong Kong health authority has implemented an anti-smoking law that bans people from smoking in all indoor areas, including work places, public places, restaurants, and karaoke lounges. This pushes office smokers to take their cigarette breaks outdoors in the street. Smokers from the same building are gradually bonded and form a new community known as "Hot Pot Pack" as they would gather around a trash bin with an ashtray, sharing small talk with raunchy jokes like they are at a hot pot dinner.
Jimmy (Shawn Yue) is a mild mannered, sneaky and smooth advertising executive in his twenties. While smoking in an alley packed with booming loudmouth co-workers and sharing explicit gossip and horror stories, he befriends a misfit cosmetics salesgirl Cherie (Miriam Yeung) who also likes to light up. And awkward romance soon blossoms amidst the anxiety of their nicotine rush. As they become more attracted to each other they also find themselves moving farther away from their regular "hot pot pack" into their own private alley, where their conversations suggest more emotional depths, covering the collision of reality and delightfully trivial matters of the bizarre people around them.
Notes
- Related titles:
- Love in a Puff (2010)
- Love in the Buff (2012)
Cast
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| Shawn Yue | Miriam Yeung Chin Wah |
| Jimmy | Cherie |
Additional Cast Members:
- Tat-Ming Cheung - Joseph
- Charmaine Fong - Patty
- Matt Chow
- Tien You Chui
- Vincent Kok
- Jo Kuk
- Sharon Luk
- Fei-lin Miao
- Roy Szeto
- Tak-bun Wong
Trailer
Film Festivals
- 2010 (34th) Hong Kong International Film Festival - March 21st-April 6th - Gala Premieres * World Premiere
- 2010 (14th) Fantasia Film Festival - July 8-28 *International Premiere
- 2010 (15th) Pusan International Film Festival - October 7-15 - A Window on Asian Cinema
- 2010 (30th) Hawaii International Film Festival - October 14-24 - Hong Kong Cinema *Hawaii Premiere
- 2010 (23rd) Tokyo International Film Festival - October 23-31 - Film Panorama of Middle Asia-East
- 2011 (40th) International Film Festival Rotterdam - January 26-Feb. 6 - Spectrum
- 2011 (54th) San Francisco International Film Festival - April 21-May 5, 2011 - World Cinema
- 2011 (10th) Asian Film Festival of Dallas - July 14-21, 2011
- 2011 (27th) Warsaw Film Festival - October 7-16, 2011 - Discoveries
- 2011 (12th) San Diego Asian Film Festival - October 20 - 28, 2011 - Asia Pop!
Awards
- Best Screenplay - 2011 (30th) Hong Kong Film Awards - April 17, 2011
