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FIRST OF MAY

By Chi-Yu LAM

FRESH WAVE FILM FESTIVAL LIMITED - as FEST

Drama - Completed 2017

Granny Ho, has always lived in the same tenement building and has seen the old community scattered settlements. However, her son persuaded her to sell the unit and move into a building with lifts after her accidental fall. She has been reluctant to move out because she has a knot in her heart.

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Drama, Family
- Countries
- HONG KONG (CHINA)
- Languages
- CANTONESE
- Duration
- 21 mn
- Director(s)
- Chi-Yu LAM
- Writer(s)
- Chi-Yu LAM
- Cast
- Yi-Yi YEUNG
- Producer(s)
- Thisbe Hoi-Lam LAW, Hui-Wai WONG
- Synopsis
- Granny Ho, a senile and distraught widow, lives by herself in a walk-up building. For more than half a century, she has been living in her flat since she was married. But, after an accident, her legs went lame. Her son keeps persuading her to sell the flat and move into a building with lifts. She refuses and she wants to hold onto the flat, her only contact with her dead husband, where they used to do tap-dance together. Of course, they weren’t Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers but, the film makes touchingly clear, we need to listen to rhythm of their dance. More importantly, her perseverance and strength recall the portrayal of another old woman – Ella Garth (Jo Van Fleet) in Elia Kazan’s masterpiece Wild River (1960).