Perhaps Love (2005) 如果·爱: Blurring reality and fantasy, this lavish romance concerns a love triangle between the leading actress, the leading actor and their director during the making of a movie musical. Ironically, the story within the story tells a similar tale. (6.7)
Director: Peter Chan
Writers: Oi Wah Lam, Raymond To
Stars: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Xun Zhou and Jacky Cheung
An elaborately produced movie musical ... alas, the version that's available on Netflix is not all that useful as the dialog has been dubbed in English but the songs (almost all of which sound quite nice) are in Chinese and they are not even subtitled. Even the dubbed English dialog is quite artificial. Yes, you can somewhat follow the storyline, but it would have been great of you could follow the story inside the musical part also. The acting is great, specially that of the leading couple and Xun Zhou is superb in depicting the two extreme roles. The musical sets, the period costumes, etc have been done to perfection. I will not rate this movie until I see a proper subtitled version.
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