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3 days ago · In honor of Save the Last Dance’s 20th anniversary, we’ve assembled a list of 30 essential dance movies sorted by Tomatometer, encompassing ballet, hip hop, modern, tap, ballroom, breaking,...
Feb 18, 2021 · The Way We Keep Dancing: Directed by Adam Wong. With Cherry Ngan, Babyjohn Choi, Lok Man Yeung, Lydia King-Man Lau. The Kowloon Industrial District is home to many of Hong Kong artists, including rapper Heyo, YouTuber Ah Leung, rising star Hana and Dave the dancer.
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- Drama, Music
- Adam Wong
- 2021-02-18
- Meta Experiments
- Dancing Around Politics
- Messy Fragmentation
- An Uncertain Future
The Way We Keep Dancing offers a promising ambition that harkens back to the golden age of Hong Kong cinema. It is not the first Hong Kong movie to conduct meta experiments—see the works of Stanley Kwan and Ann Hui. But arthouse gems like theirs are few and far between. Regardless of execution, Wong’s premise is bold and original. If The Way We Dan...
Politics have always been part of Wong’s movies. The dream-chasing sentiment of The Way We Dance captures the hopefulness of a Hong Kong pre-Umbrella Movement. After the failure of that event, the dual timeline She Remembers, He Forgets was already laced with middle-aged regret of dashed dreams. And now in 2021, The Way We Keep Dancing brings utter...
Unfortunately, Wong’s ambition also leads to The Way We Keep Dancing being his messiest movie to date. Whereas The Way We Dance keeps everyone in the same group, the sequel is divided on purpose. Just as today’s HongKongers are split into several camps, there are many subplots to keep track of: Hana (Cherry Ngan) with her nascent pop star career, L...
That last part turned out to be true, unfortunately. As of its closing, The Way We Keep Dancing has grossed only HK$8 million. That is not only far less than its predecessor, but also a certain loss for its studio Golden Scene. Every time another one bites the dust—a 100% locally financed Hong Kong movie suffers at the box office—the future of nati...
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The Way We Keep Dancing DRAMA Some hip-hop street dancers find themselves torn over how best to preserve their culture and way of life amid the seemingly unstoppable wave of gentrification that threatens to engulf their community.
- Adam Wong
- Cherry Ngan, Babyjohn Choi, Lok Man Yeung
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- Adam Wong
- 129
- Drama
- Fleur; Alan; Dave
A group of artists tries to stop the government from destroying Kowloon Industrial District.
Some hip-hop street dancers find themselves torn over how best to preserve their culture and way of life amid the seemingly unstoppable wave of gentrification that threatens to engulf their...
- Drama, Music
