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Beijing Love Story

Original title: Bei Jing ai qing gu shi
  • 20142014
  • 2h 1m
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5.8/10
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Beijing Love Story (2014)
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Different generations look at love, romance and commitment, all from a uniquely Beijing perspective; a pregnant woman must choose between her husband and an ex-love who comes back into her l... Read allDifferent generations look at love, romance and commitment, all from a uniquely Beijing perspective; a pregnant woman must choose between her husband and an ex-love who comes back into her life, a couple looks toward a trip to Greece to confront their own infidelity, and a young ... Read allDifferent generations look at love, romance and commitment, all from a uniquely Beijing perspective; a pregnant woman must choose between her husband and an ex-love who comes back into her life, a couple looks toward a trip to Greece to confront their own infidelity, and a young couple must decide whether to listen to their parents' reason or their emotional heart.
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415
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    • Sicheng Chen
    • Sicheng Chen
  • Stars
    • Sicheng Chen
    • Liya Tong
    • Tony Ka Fai Leung
    • Sicheng Chen
    • Sicheng Chen
  • Stars
    • Sicheng Chen
    • Liya Tong
    • Tony Ka Fai Leung
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    • 3User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
    • 44Metascore
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    Sicheng Chen
    Sicheng Chen
    • Chen Feng
    Liya Tong
    Liya Tong
    • Shen Yan
    Tony Ka Fai Leung
    Tony Ka Fai Leung
    • Liu Hui
    Carina Lau
    Carina Lau
    • Jia Lin
    Xuebing Wang
    Xuebing Wang
    • Wu Zheng
    Nan Yu
    Nan Yu
    • Zhang Lei
    Gaowa Siqin
    Gaowa Siqin
    • Gao Xia
    Qingxiang Wang
    • Wang Daqi
    Elaine Jin
    Elaine Jin
    • Xue Aijia
    Na-Na OuYang
    Na-Na OuYang
    • Liu Xingyang
    Le Geng
    Le Geng
    • Hong Jiang
    Jingfei Guo
    Jingfei Guo
    • Ma Liang
    Haoran Liu
    Haoran Liu
    • Ge Sung
    Simon Shi
    Simon Shi
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      • Sicheng Chen
      • Sicheng Chen
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      Love Love
      Composed by Dongdong Dong

      Lyrics by Tracy Chen

      Performed by Mi Yang

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    6/10
    Well-acted and well-told, but some of the stories in this film are less compelling than others.
    Anthology films about love and romance range from the intricately interwoven (Love Actually) to the episodic (Paris Je T'Aime) - the sweet, if patchy, Beijing Love Story makes a half-hearted stab at the former but falls more in the latter category. That's unsurprising, as it turns out, since this box-office-busting Chinese film takes as its inspiration the 2012 television series of the same name. But what might have worked as discrete episodes on TV don't cohere quite as effectively in a film. Invariably, some of the stories cooked up by writer, director and star Chen Sicheng are wonderful - and others comparatively interminable.

    Designer Chen Feng (Chen) falls in love with Shen Yan (Tong Liya) at a friend's bachelor party, but finds that he might be too poor to sustain a relationship with her. Chen's boss (Wang Xuebing) cheats with alarming regularity on his dutiful wife (Yu Nan). Vengeful wife tries to cheat with her own employer (Tony Leung Ka-Fai), who in turns jets off to Greece for a decadent rendezvous with his mistress (Carina Lau). A young man (Liu Haoran) pines after his cello-playing classmate (Ouyang Nana). His grandfather (Wang Qingxiang) goes on a series of blind dates set up by choir teacher Mrs Gao (Siqin Gaowa).

    Of these five lightly inter-connected tales, two stand out. The first is the spiky, fascinating tryst between the pair of adulterers in Greece, which reveals itself to be so much more when the duo stop flirting and start arguing. Over the course of their conversation, it becomes clear that there's an unexpected wealth of depth and history to their sordid relationship. Leung and Lau are fantastic, coyly teasing each other before they start to scratch away at the very real emotional scars they've both suffered since their lives first intertwined.

    The second story - the string of blind dates set up for the reticent older gentleman - has its own little twist too, and it's the kind that will warm and break your heart in the same breath. Chen's grasp on this particular story is great: it starts out as a sweet, awkward tale about finding love later in life, before it segues almost seamlessly into a devastatingly simple, achingly profound love story.

    It's perhaps no coincidence that the two better stories in Chen's collection of five focus on protagonists who hardly ever get the spotlight in romantic movies. The other three tales, which revolve around the more conventionally young and pretty, are perfectly sweet and watchable but, barring a few great lines of dialogue, not especially memorable.

    Taken as a whole, this is an unapologetically sentimental, sometimes draggy tribute to the power of love in all its guises: whether in the first flush of puppy love, or the tangled mess of an affair. But Beijing Love Story does make up for what it frequently lacks in terms of its narrative with plenty of heart and a great cast. It's not necessarily amazing cinema, but, on at least two counts, it's very good story-telling.
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      • February 14, 2014 (China)
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    • 2 hours 1 minute
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