Starring: Shawn Yue Man-lok, Miriam Yeung Chin-wah, Mini Yang Mi, Xu Zheng Director: Pang Ho-cheung Category: IIB (Cantonese and Putonghua)
We don't need great movies right now, just good movies with a Hong Kong flavour. Thanks to Pang Ho-cheung, we now have Love in the Buff, a smutty but hilarious romantic comedy that is exactly what audiences now demand.
A sequel to 2010's Love in a Puff, the film begins with the charming couple Jimmy (Shawn Yue Man-lok) and Cherie (Miriam Yeung Chin-wah, above, with Yue) falling apart after spending nine months together.
Both decide to venture north in search for better career opportunities but end up finding greener pastures relationship-wise.
While Jimmy beds a gorgeous flight attendant (Mini Yang Mi), Cherie is courted by a divorced entrepreneur (Xu Zheng). Yet the pair can't let go of the past. When they bump into each other in Beijing, old wounds are reopened and old flames reignited.
Pang is never a sentimentalist. Characters in Buff see love as a human need that can readily make way for careers and lifestyles. Jimmy and Cherie don't even follow the erotic formula that drives most love stories.