Starring: Wong Yau-nam, Carl Ng, Kristin Tin Yui-lei, Deep Ng Ho-hong
Directors: Lam Wah-chuen, Lee Kung-lok, Chan Wing-chiu and six other local directors
Category: I (Cantonese and English)
There isn't much love, and even less inspiration, in this omnibus look at Hong Kong during the first post-handover decade. The basic concept is solid: invite a number of directors each to make a 10-minute film presenting his or her unique perspective on love, Hong Kong-style. But alas, the resulting feature makes for such frustrating viewing that it serves merely as testimony to the continuing malaise afflicting the once proud local motion picture industry.
None of this is to say that many of the chapters don't have their moments. The most imaginative is Toe Yuen's Paper Papa, which makes some pointed observations in a whimsical tale of two eccentric kids who build a cardboard rocket and blast off into space.
Also relatively amusing is the other youth-oriented instalment, director Lam Wah-chuen's Rock Lion Rock, in which a reclusive teenage girl is brought out of her shell, and her bedroom, by a human incarnation of Lion Rock Mountain (Wong Yau-nam) and his Hong Kong island counterpart, The Peak (Belinda Hamnett).