Yue man ying lun

Not many films can keep me watching until almost 2am, but this is one of them. I found it captivating from the beginning. It is fairly well scripted, and very well acted - notably Vicky Chen's performance I think. It concerns the story of Chinese immigrants etching out an existence in London. You'll be wanting to watch it to the end to find out how their lives turn out. I thought that the perspective of a foreign language film, shot entirely in London, was an interesting premise. Usually seeing a foreign language film - this one in Chinese - I'd expect to see it shot in the home country. Making a British film but scripting it almost entirely in Chinese was a gamble on the filmmaker's part, but one that paid off in my opinion.