This
note below responds to a comment I made at the end of my report on Peter Ho-sun
Chan's Dearest
Your comment on the Asian general public
not going to Peter Chan's film is quite pertinent but it's a fact of
life. It works in reverse too. The year Johnnie To was guest of MIFF
with a retro (I think) and his second most recent film, his very, very latest
one was playing at the Chinatown Cinema, half a block away from where his
other films were being feted by MIFF. I'm sure almost nobody from MIFF's
audience would have known or cared.
My Chinese friends tell me the
demographic for going to Chinese movies is the "before marriage"
crowd. Something happens, they reinforced, when people get married and
doing fun things out of the home doesn't include movies. They are for domestic
consumption only. Certainly at the Chinese films I attend here, the audience is
mostly groups of young, chatty girls or dating couples.
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