Starry Is the Night

Year: 1988

Runtime: 94 mins

Language: Cantonese

Director: Ann Hui

Romance

Cai Mei, a 40‑year‑old single social worker, begins an unlikely relationship with the teenage Tian‑Ah. As the affair unfolds, she is forced to revisit the memory of her own youthful love affair with an older, married professor, contrasting the two relationships and their emotional consequences.

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