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A Simple Life

Tou ze

2011

Ann Hui

Deannie Yip, Andy Lau, Wang Fuli, Amanda Qin ...

6.8

1,548

Drama Based on a true story, the film centres on Ah Tao (Ip), an amah (servant and nanny) who has worked for the Leung family for four generations. She lives with and takes care of Roger (Lau), a film producer who is the only member of the Leung household still living in Hong Kong. Roger returns home one day and finds Ah Tao unconscious after a stroke. Convinced she has becoming a burden, Tao resigns and moves into a retirement home. But upon ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"A Simple Life is on my year's best films list"	POS
United States	Rachel Saltz The New York Times	"Ms. Hui, a rare successful female director in the Hong Kong film industry, drew her story from real events, and the movie retains a tonic flavor of the everyday: its drama unfolds simply, without explosive moments but not without emotion"	POS

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