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Comrades, Almost a Love Story (甜蜜蜜, 1996) is a Hong Kong romance directed by Peter Chan — watch online on iFILM. Li Xiao-Jun crosses from mainland China to Hong Kong with a single plan: save enough to go home and marry his girlfriend. Li Qiao has made the same crossing with the opposite idea: she is never going back.
They find each other by accident. Both strangers to Hong Kong's rhythm, they piece together how to live in it. The friendship becomes something neither names out loud. He can't release the past; she won't narrow her ambitions for anyone. Maggie Cheung plays Qiao with a precise, aching clarity — a woman who knows exactly what she wants, and that knowledge is what keeps her from it.
Peter Chan built a film that is as much about Hong Kong in the 1980s — a city suspended between two worlds — as it is about its characters. The picture took seven Hong Kong Film Awards, including Best Film. Stream Comrades, Almost a Love Story (1996) on iFILM.
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