No.7 Cherry Lane

I went to watch this in the hopes of getting some nice insight into Hong Kong in 1967.There is a lot of good drawings but as a movie it's a borefest.

The film is one of the most beautiful animated films I've ever seen, but that's the only thing that's good.The plot is immensely dense and hard to follow, even to someone like me who understands Mandarin and Cantonese.

This really felt like a was watching a series of consecutively drawn pictures. It was beautiful.

A cinematic poem, digressive, fascinating, progressively captivating. A love letter to cinema, to melodramas, to the animation art, with also a bit of humour and grotesque, dreamlike sequence.

Definitely needs a re-edit. I'm not saying it's bad but it's not the best example of its genre.

Yonfan is a master in storytelling, and this is a movie that needs a full immersion, is a slow burn, ipnotic and millimetric. It could have won the Golden Lion and it'd have been so deserved.