Hold you tight

Movie
German title	Hold you tight
Original title	愈快乐愈堕落; Yue faai lok yue doh lok
Country of production	Hong Kong
original language	Cantonese
Publishing year	1997
length	99 minutes
Age rating	FSK n / a
Rod
Director	Stanley Kwan; Taney Chan (Assistant Director) ; Katie Kwan (Assistant Director)
script	Jimmy Ngai , Elmond Yeung
production	Raymond Chow ; Benny Wong (Associate Producer) ; Sunny Cheng (Production Manager)
music	Keith Leung, Yat-Yiu Yu
camera	Pung-Leung Kwan
cut	Maurice Li
occupation
	Chi-Ming Au; Sunny Chan (Fung Wai); Shu-Fun Chin (bartender); Kar-Lok Choi (boy in the swimming pool); Lanie Gibson; Man-Ning He (customer in boutique); Yue-Lin Ko (Jie); Jerry Lai (singer in 'Funky'); Wing-Kiu Lau (Winnie); Siu-Kei Lee (Club Manager); Sandra Ng Kwan Yue (video seller); Tony Rayns (Rosa's friend); Wing-Yin Sin (Jo-Jo, Rosa's daughter); Chuen-Ying Siu (Tong's colleague); Eric Tsang (Tong); Man-Wai Wong (Young Woman); Chingmy Yau (Ah Moon / Rosa Gao);

Hold You Tight ( Chinese 愈快乐愈堕落 , Pinyin yù kuài lè yù duò luò , Cantonese Yue faai lok yue doh lok ) is the seventh feature film by the Hong Kong-Chinese director Stanley Kwan . It is Kwan's first feature film after his documentary Yang & Yin. Gender in Chinese Cinema , at the end of which he comes out as gay . Hold You Tight represents a twist in Kwan's cinematic oeuvre, as the fates of gay men now come to the fore alongside portrayals of women's fates, which Kwan perfected in films such as Center Stage ( Lan Yu ).

action

The opening sequence of Hold You Tight takes the viewer to Hong Kong Airport. There two women who look very similar (played by the same actress) are waiting for their flight to Taipei . One of the two, a newly divorced businesswoman named Rosa, cannot find her plane ticket and misses the flight, which will save her life. The other woman, named Ah Moon, is going on a business trip.
The young lifeguard Jie, who had a relationship with Ah Moon, is now following her husband Fung Wai to find out more about this man and his relationship with Ah Moon. The longer Jie Fung Wai watches, the more drawn he becomes to him. Finally, Jie flees from his homoerotic desire to Taiwan, where he meets the businesswoman Rosa, whom the audience already knows from the opening sequence. Rosa's strong resemblance to the late Ah Moon attracts Jie and he can open up to her and trust her. She convinces him that he must return to Hong Kong and tell Fung Wai the truth.
On the sidelines of this story is the gay real estate agent Tong, who contrasts strongly with the subliminal desire of Jie in living out his sexuality. Tong also feels drawn to Fung Wai.

Reviews

"The exploration of sexual identity by depicting five different life paths of people with different sexual orientation ... a captivating fresco of heterosexual and homosexual desire."

- Variety Magazine : quoted from: Programmkino Wels (Hrsg.), Programmzeitung 08/02 , Wels (AT) 2002.