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我愛紫羅蘭 (1966)
Violet Girl


Reviewed by: dleedlee
Date: 01/18/2004
Summary: aka I Love Violet / I Love Gillyflower

An unusual film. Seeing Lui Kei, Leung Sing-Bo and Lee Heung Kam on the credits I assumed another formulaic romance comedy.

Instead, it's parts comedy, mystery and psychological thriller. Hotel phone operator Tai Wei/David (Lui Kei), on his first day on the job, receives a phone call from a woman claiming to know him from the past. Colleague Fook (Cheung Ching) tries to help unravel the mystery of who the woman is. Each of their attempts to meet her ends in a painful drubbing. Even after they finally meet her they can't figure out who she is.


The two phone operators are invited to a dinner at her villa to meet her parents. A scene from the past is reenacted and then the original past scene is told in flashback.

By parts funny and gripping, mid way through the story started to lag as the mystery section dragged out until the story picked up again and the mystery begins to be revealed. The film ends on an unexpectedly bleak note.

The mystery woman Janny is played by Man Lan. Leung Sing-Bo plays Dr Ma, a psychiatrist. Wong Man-Lei appears as Janny's mother. Cheung Wood Yau, in a hardly recognizable role, plays her father.

For some reason, the melody of 'Rule Brittania' is heard frequently in the background.

Reviewer Score: 7