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July Rhapsody, or “Man of Forty” 男人四十 in Chinese, depicts the repetition of a teacher-student relationship over two generations. It is mostly regarded as a companion to Summer Snow (1995), for the Chinese title of the 1995 film is “Woman of Forty” 女人四十 and they are both about the problems encountered by ordinary middle-aged people in Hong Kong. Rather than seeing July Rhapsody (2002) as a companion to Summer Snow (1995), this entry interprets the 2002 film, set in Hong Kong and Kowloon, as an urban antecedent of The Way We Are 天水圍的日與夜 (2008) and Night and Fog 天水圍的夜與霧 (2009) which are both set in a newly developed satellite town, Tin Shui Wai 天水圍, in Hong Kong’s New Territories 新界. The framed narrative of July Rhapsody(2002) is seemingly a story about the struggle of a father, the “man of forty,” but is actually a coming-of-age story of a son who discovers his real origin. This entry compares the...
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Lo, L. (2022). Ann Hui’s Cinematics of the Ordinary: July Rhapsody 男人四十 (2002). In: Tambling, J. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62419-8_338
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