Lockdown and New Year have something in common. They both bring family members closer (in any sense) and allow them – or force them – to share joys and pains. “Chilli Laugh Story” is the debut feature of young director Coba Cheng, who plays on this convenient communality, and sets this classic Lunar New Year comedy based on his own similar experience, in the Hong Kong community during the lockdown. Because of those same featured restrictions, the film couldn’t be released in cinemas for the New Year, but it is finally out now and also due to UK theatres these days.
The house-bound Cheung family is composed by proud dad Alan (Ronald Cheng), mum Rita (Gigi Leung) eternally worrying and dreaming of owning a flat in Hong Kong one day, and son Coba (Edan Lui) who struggles to work from home, disturbed all day by dad’s television and the constant...
The house-bound Cheung family is composed by proud dad Alan (Ronald Cheng), mum Rita (Gigi Leung) eternally worrying and dreaming of owning a flat in Hong Kong one day, and son Coba (Edan Lui) who struggles to work from home, disturbed all day by dad’s television and the constant...
- 7/14/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
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