PRESS PREVIEW
For the baby boomer, watching ECHOES OF THE RAINBOWcan be an enriching experience in poetic indulgence.
For one, it stretches your imagination.
ECHOES OF THE RAINBOW is indeed, a mushy film.
It reeks of this powerful element called emotion.
It reaches your heartstrings and tugs.
Hear the echoes?
You eyes will swell with tears
You may reach for the tissue when you hear the familar echoes of LOVE amid rainbow hues chiming resonantly in your ears:
They beckon you to take note:
“Come take my hand …..
Together let’s stroll down memory lane.”
Shall we?
ECHOES OF THE RAINBOW shows us that love is universal.
LOVE transcends time, boundaries and creeds.
That there’s no greater journey than the one that leads you to love.
SOMETIMES, if you can catch the breeze at the right time, you’ll have this surging feeling that love is all around us.
Have you ever been assailed by such intense happiness inside, that you feel that you’re like a lark going to burst into song?
For crying out loud, everybody does.
Good things are transient, are momentary, they never last.
Treasure love when it’s around.
Maybe for now, it is staring at you in the face.
But it’s like a car, parked at your door, and when the time comes, it revs up and roars off.
Weep not when love dies.
People do fall out of love.
TIME WILL HEAL MOST EVERYTHING, but memories cannot be erased.
Directed by ALEX LAU who also wrote the wonderful screenplay, ECHOES OF THE RAINBOW competed in the Berlin International Film Festival and bagged the CRYSTALBEAR AWARD for the Best Film in the Children’s Jury “Generation Kplus”.
It also garnered 6 nominations in the 29th Hong Kong FilmAwards to be held on April 18, 2010: SIMON YAM (Best Actor), SANDRA NG (Best Actress), Best New Performers (AARIF LEE and CHUNG SHIU TO), Best Screenplay (ALEX LAU) and Best Original Film Song.
ECHOES OF THE RAINBOW transports us to vintage Hong Kong in the 1960s, a long lost era that was once peppered with beauty, charm and character.
The story is narrated through the eyes of one gawky pre-teenager, our protagonist.
He comes from this simple family.
His father (SIMON YAM) is simple. He’s hard nosed, works as a cobbler and is a disciplinarian.
His mother (SANDRA NG) is simple. She believes in the sunny side, that everything is attainable, if you dare dream.
His elder brother (AARIF LEE) is simple. He has those dreamy eyes for his tropical fishes and sports, until he discovers his one true puppy love.
Our protagonist is simple. He sees life through rose-tinted innocence.
The plot is simple. Life is about love.
Love and loyalty for your parents, siblings, neighbors, friends and your sweetheart.
SIMON YAM is absolutely good. He shows us that he retains versatility in choices of characters. He plays a good father this time round, after a string of baddie roles.
SANDRA NG is no longer a madcap this time. She is the doting mother with an eye for positivism and this is pivotal during hard times, in keeping the family together.
Enjoy the beautiful score in this fantastic movie and behold a new rising sexy Hong Kong star called AARIF LEE, a cross between FEI XIANG and LEE HOM. He’s one actor to watch in the coming years.
As this reviewer has said earlier, love can be simple and that there’s no greater journey than the one that leads you to love.
Listen to an old hit by PAUL ANKA, Times Of Your Life :
“Good morning, yesterday
You wake up and time has slipped away
And suddenly it’s hard to find
The memories you left behind
Remember, do you remember?
The laughter and the tears
The shadows of misty yesteryears
The good times and the bad you’ve seen
And all the others in between
Remember, do you remember
The times of your life?
Reach out for the joy and the sorrow
Put them away in your mind
The memories are time that you borrow
To spend when you get to tomorrow
Here comes the setting sun
The seasons are passing one by one
So gather moments while you may
Collect the dreams you dream today
Remember, will you remember
The times of your life?”
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