HAPPY TIMES (2001)

A middle aged bachelor, Zhao is desperately seeking love and thinks he has found it in a woman who wants a large wedding.  It appears that Zhao has promised more than what he can deliver to this woman, since he is rather poor.  However, he fabricates a story that he is a co-owner of a hotel, and in the process is asked to help her blind stepdaughter, Wu Ying, to get a job at the hotel.  As the story develops, the truth of Wu Ying is revealed, and it seems like Zhao is in over his head again.  Happy Times is a comic tragedy that shakes the audience with both laughs and sorrow.  The film offers a truly humane cinematic experience that will touch those who see this remarkable film.

DIRECTED BY

Yimou Zhang

COUNTRY

China

REVIEWED
3/21/2003
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