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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like Ann Hui’s intimate exile drama, it observes a Chinese family split between old-country habits and Australian migration, finding tenderness and friction in everyday generational misunderstandings.
02
Why this pick
Its returning Chinese-American protagonist faces the same ache of belonging in more than one culture, with family conflict rendered through restrained, affectionate observation rather than melodrama.
03
Why this pick
Ann Hui again builds a quietly devastating family portrait from domestic details: a capable woman caught between work, marriage, caregiving, and the pressures of tradition.
04
Why this pick
This shares the precise, emotionally patient attention to intergenerational tension, especially the way love and disappointment surface indirectly inside a changing Chinese household.
05
Why this pick
A wistful Hong Kong migration story with the same sensitivity to displacement, class, and emotional compromise, following two mainland arrivals as the city reshapes their dreams.
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01 / THE STORY
Set in the early 1970s, it tells the story of a Chinese-Japanese student who returns to her native Hong Kong after graduating from a university in London. Once she arrives back home, she and her family begins to fight, largely due to cultural and societal conflicts between her mother and herself.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Cheung Hueyin (Xiao En)
Younger sister's husband
Aiko's brother
Mr. Cheung
Xiao Hui (Hueyin's younger sister)
Aiko (Hueyin's mother)
Hueyin's Grandfather
Hueyin's Grandmother