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每天愛您8小時 (1998)
Your Place or Mine!


Reviewed by: Souxie
Date: 07/29/2001
Summary: Charming little movie

"Charming" is probably the wrong word; it gives the wrong impression. This is a nice little movie, one that doesn't give you any answers at the end and doesn't pretend to know everything. It has some really good, funny moments, and the actors are first-rate. This is the first film I've seen with Alex Fong but he was just right, and I think Tony Leung Chiu Wai is physically incapable of being anything less than HKFA material in a film anyway. The "plot" was good, the film yipped along and the humour made it go even quicker. Watch this movie with your girlfriend - you'll think it's funny, she'll think you're sensitive... :)
9/10

Reviewer Score: 9

Reviewed by: Rab99bit
Date: 05/25/2001
Summary: Entertaining & light-hearted movie

Though this may not be the kind of movie you would want to bring your mother-in-law to, it is the sort of movie you would like to watch, relaxed and stretched out on the sofa / bed / deck-chair, etc without caring about the issues raised or the morals of the characters. The movie touches on issues like promiscuity, impotence, male contraception and orgasm but does not go deep into them. The witty dialoque does not make you burst out laughing but it certainly can bring a smile to your face, as you watch the 2 well-matched characters, portrayed by Alex Fong & Tony Leung. Alex has done pretty well in this movie. His acting appears to have improved by a few notches compared to earlier days.


Reviewed by: grimes
Date: 04/08/2000

UFO est mort, vive l'UFO!. It appears that the fact that UFO is no more is not going to hinder the creation of UFO style movies,
as Your Place or Mine demonstrates quite aptly. If, like myself, you are a fan of UFO's productions, then this is no doubt
good news. I was somewhat shocked that this film, though produced by Wong Jing, remained very true the UFO style.

James Yuen, the screenwriter and director for this film, also wrote a number of UFO films, including the excellent Twenty
Something and Who's the Woman, Who's the Man as well as the lesser films Tom, Dick, and Hairy and Heaven Can't Wait.
Your Place or Mine is strongly reminiscent of Tom, Dick, and Hairy, though it is significantly better.

The film centers around Tony Leung (whose character's name is used only once, if I remember correctly), a "creative" at a
Hong Kong ad agency. He is somewhat notorious for nurturing woman to fame and fortune and falling in love with them at
the same time. These women inevitably dump him when they reach success, leaving him depressed and miserable. He is
somewhat the opposite of his friend and coworker Patrick, a satyr (as aptly translated in the subtitles) who while
theoretically living with Fanny, spends much of his time pursuing new sexual conquests. Suki Kwan plays their coworker
Mei Mei, who has a crush on Patrick.

Into Tony Leung's life come two women at once. One is his new boss, Vivian (Ada Choi), a stereotypically tough "woman in a
man's world". The other is his newest discoveru and protegé Ah Yu, a sweet young innocent. For the first time, he is in a
position where he must make a choice, rather than merely being a choice.

The film is extremely talky, in a style that can best be described as "very French." The film is mostly a series of conversations
and monologues about love, sex, and relationships. Tony Leung, unsurprisingly, delivers yet another excellent performance.
He manages to create a sensitive and emotionally engaging character while keeping his tongue just enough in his cheek to
provide some fine comic moments. Some of the best come when he has mental conversations with his former girlfriends,
going back to his first sweetheart from high school.

The rest of the cast is also quite good, though Vivian Hsu probably gave the weakest performance of the lot, seeming to rely
primarily on her cuteness. Suki Kwan, who was a highlight in the otherwise mostly dull A True Mob Story, shines though
her role is small. I also enjoyed Spencer Lam in his small role as Tony's father.

Though not a terribly deep film, Your Place or Mine has a strong script with engaging and likeable characters. In addition, it
has many strong comic and dramatic moments. Seeing this movie has made me take heart in the fact that the style of Hong
Kong film largely pioneered by the UFO studio will not die with the studio itself.


Reviewed by: Mark
Date: 12/30/1999
Summary: Charming little romantic comedy

This is a charming little romantic comedy directed and written by James Yuen. Wai (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) and Patrick (Alex Fong) are partners at the BEST advertising agency, where they use "Love" to flog anything from diapers to insurance. Outside of work, their experience of love is poles apart. Patrick has a steady girlfriend Fanny (Eileen Tung) and 108 lies to cover his chronic habit of illicit one-night stands, whereas Wai's lonely flat is cluttered with the leftover possessions of the string of girls who've dumped him. Actually, it's not that lonely, as Patrick is often upstairs with some new girl using the place as a sex motel, Wai's widowed father Simon (Spencer Lam) is often downstairs whooping it up over the soccer, and the string of girls occasionally drop by for a kooky dream sequence in which they admonish Wai for "not understanding women". However, he's ready to broaden that understanding, and soon falls in love with two of them at the same time: his cute new protege and part-time fishball hawker Ah Yu (Vivian Hsu), and his cool new boss and alleged lesbian Vivian (Ada Choi). Meanwhile, Patrick is having some heart-to-hearts (and on one occasion, hands-to-heart) with his co-worker Mei (Suki Kwan), which soon enough puts him on the perilous path to Lie #109.

As you can tell, the film contrasts male approaches to relationships. Patrick (a self-avowed "natural born satyr") treats any moment of intimacy as a possible tongue kiss situation, whereas the best that nice guy Wai can do with a drunk and apparently compliant partner is to count her toes. You can see the word "comeuppance" looming over Patrick's head like a Viagra prescription.

The film is punctuated by plenty of quick gags and cute camera tricks, and these along with great performances from some of the most handsome and/or beautiful actors in Hong Kong make it a pleasure to watch from go to woe. Although the film presents it as a natural law that men like to fool around, the final caution is that if you don't know when to stop fooling and get serious, the ultimate answer to "Your place or mine?" could be "None of the above".

[As a sidenote, the poster for this film features Tony in bed with all of the women, while Alex consoles himself with a girly mag in the bottom righthand corner, i.e. the exact reverse of the actual plot. A tactic to cash in on Tony's star power, or an attempt to repackage him as a raging 100% hetero after he was last seen cuddling Leslie Cheung in Happy Together? You be the judge!]


Reviewed by: ryan
Date: 11/21/1999
Summary: Your Place or Mine (1998)

The postor of 'Your Peace or Mine' (1998) is quite misleading, it states with a big name UFO and BOB. But the fact is that this movie is nothing related to UFO. The only thing they would like to state is that it's directed by James YUEN Sai-sang who is the executive of UFO (United Film Organization). When looking at the casting, it seems quite attractive as it casts with Tony LEUNG Chiu-wai and Alex FONG plus Vivian HSU and Ada CHOI.

The story is talking about the things happened to two men, Wai (Tony LEUNG) and Patrict (Alex FONG) who works for the same company. Wai is a advertising man who has many loves. His specialty is to create new stars from up and coming artists. Each time he creates a new star, he falls in love with them. Each time it results in the woman, who crave fame and fortune, leaving him high and dry, breaking his heart each time. This time he is currently seeing two women, new stars Ah Yu (Vivian Hsu) and Vivian (Ada Choi). Wai's friend, Patrick (Alex Fong Chung-Shun) is a philandering playboy who is secretly loved by Ah Fun (Eileen Tung Oi-Ling) and Ah Mei (Suki Kwan Sau-Mei). However, both are driven to desperation by the playboy.

This is the third movie directed by James YUEN. His 1st direction 'Wedding Days, The' is quite good while his past movie 'Rumble Ages' doesn't work. This time James go back to his favorite type -- love comedy. The cooperation of WONG Jing and James YUEN is that they would like to have their best. Let's see if this works.

I consider this movie is more like in BOB production rather than Jame's YUEN element as from UFO. Desenly packed jokes is the trademark for BOB production. Most of them works so as to make it fun. In fact, James' script are out-of expectation at a certain extent. One of my favorite is the design for the suicide of Patrict who is quited by Ah Fun. It's quite calculated but it works very well.

In terms of the romantic part, James tried to put the effort to put his views about love into the movie. He tried to explain love as footall match. That's why he cast LAM Sheung-yee as Wai's dad. Wai and Patrick are the two poles in this romantic game. Wai is a guy who are too involved in every love but forget the efforts from the other side very soon. On the other hand, Patrick is a guy who just want to get his own enjoyment with no involvement. The girls around Patrick tried to change him or accept him but they leave finally. In presenting this, James basically can get the contents and present it. I think it works basically. But I think James can make it better if there're some more impressive sence on each love.

In terms of the performance, I think this is the part which shows its pitfall. It seems that James hasn't let the actresses to give their best. It seems that the girls are just for beauty and they haven't got stuffs for them to act. Personally I consider Vivian HSU can play a more important role.

Though it's a pitfall, but undoubtedly the performance of Tony LEUNG and Alex FONG are good which helps for improving the overall performance of the movie. I consider Alex FONG has more opportunity to act which he can perform well.

In short, I think James YUEN has done a good job in the director. About the screenplay, I think he can make it more entertaining and more impressive.