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writer Robert Bell said "...the subject matter of Floating City doesn't come as a surprise, mirroring the life of a self-made man with the rapid change of Hong Kong from small fishing village to booming metropolis over latter half of the 20th Century. But what does surprise is just how amateurish and
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reviewer Thomas Spurlin said "As a whole, the impression I took away from Floating City is that of an overwrought and disjointed meditation on the value of life and the injustice of misfortune, a melodrama that confuses its soapbox-worthy communication of social issues and generational shifts in
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journalist J.C. Maçek III wrote "First and foremost, Floating City is an incredibly beautiful movie. Director Yim Ho uses his camera lens to drink in the scenery of Hong Kong over a decades-long story that is as beautiful as the scenery itself."
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sloppy it all is, which is of substantial concern with such an epic and ambitious project."
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in a rapidly changing Hong Kong at the end of British Colonial rule.
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This article related to a Hong Kong film of the 2010s is a
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China for an enriching tale of cohabiting with them."
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Floating city

Yim Ho
Aaron Kwok
Charlie Young
Annie Liu
Josie Ho
Cantonese
Chinese
Jyutping
drama film
Yim Ho
self-made man
Exclaim!
DVD Talk
PopMatters
"HK-China film withdrawn from Tokyo festival"
"Floating City"
Exclaim!
"Floating City"
DVD Talk
"Aspiration, Honor, Loyalty and Culture Clashes from the 'Floating City' to the Throne"
PopMatters
Floating City
IMDb
v
t
e
Yim Ho
Homecoming

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