My Heart Is That Eternal Rose 35th Anniversary Blu-ray
HomeMy Heart Is That Eternal Rose 35th Anniversary Blu-ray
Posted October 15, 2024 08:44 PM by Webmaster
Kani will issue a standard retail edition of Patrick Tam's My Heart Is That Eternal Rose (1989), starring Kenny Bee, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Joey Wang, Michael Wai-Man Chan, and Chia-Hui Liu. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on October 29.
The idyllic, beach-side life of a retired Triad boss, his daughter Lap (Joey Wong) and her boyfriend Rick (Kenny Bee), shatters when a mob favour turns into a bloody shootout. Trading her freedom for her father's, Lap becomes mistress to Godfather Shen, while Rick goes into exile. Years later, as Shen unknowingly hires Rick as a hitman, Lap sees her chance at escape, while doe-eyed Triad gofer (Tony Leung) completes the doomed quadrangle.
Directed by the foremost stylist of the Hong Kong New Wave (and a mentor to Wong Kar-Wai), My Heart Is That Eternal Rose is the apotheosis of Patrick Tam's time within the strictures of the Hong Kong mainstream. Fulfilling commercial requirements while elevating formula with a lush sense of style, My Heart Is That Eternal Rose sings with the painterly cinematography of Christopher Doyle and David Chung as Tam's dream-like direction bridges the distance between the bullet ballets of a John Woo and the festering darkness of a David Lynch. It the blue jewel in the crown of the Hong Kong heroic bloodshed sub-genre, shining bright to this day.
Presented alongside two episodes from celebrated TV series C.I.D. (1976), which were originally shot on 16mm reversal film, transferred to betacam in the 2000s and digitized in the early 2010s by Television Broadcasting Company (TVB).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
The idyllic, beach-side life of a retired Triad boss, his daughter Lap (Joey Wong) and her boyfriend Rick (Kenny Bee), shatters when a mob favour turns into a bloody shootout. Trading her freedom for her father's, Lap becomes mistress to Godfather Shen, while Rick goes into exile. Years later, as Shen unknowingly hires Rick as a hitman, Lap sees her chance at escape, while doe-eyed Triad gofer (Tony Leung) completes the doomed quadrangle.
Directed by the foremost stylist of the Hong Kong New Wave (and a mentor to Wong Kar-Wai), My Heart Is That Eternal Rose is the apotheosis of Patrick Tam's time within the strictures of the Hong Kong mainstream. Fulfilling commercial requirements while elevating formula with a lush sense of style, My Heart Is That Eternal Rose sings with the painterly cinematography of Christopher Doyle and David Chung as Tam's dream-like direction bridges the distance between the bullet ballets of a John Woo and the festering darkness of a David Lynch. It the blue jewel in the crown of the Hong Kong heroic bloodshed sub-genre, shining bright to this day.
Presented alongside two episodes from celebrated TV series C.I.D. (1976), which were originally shot on 16mm reversal film, transferred to betacam in the 2000s and digitized in the early 2010s by Television Broadcasting Company (TVB).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 2K RESTORATION
- New Cantonese Audio Restoration (2024)
- Mandarin Dub
- Interview with John Sham by Arnaud Lanuque (2019, 22 minutes)
- C.I.D. Season 1, Episode 3: Two Teddy Girls (1976, 49 minutes)
- C.I.D. Season 1, Episode 14: Dawn Noon Dusk Night (1976, 49 minutes)
- Interview with actor Simon Yam on C.I.D. (2023, 6 minutes)
- Booklet with new interview with Patrick Tam
- New artwork by Tom Estrera III
- New Limited Edition Slipcover by Kong Kee 江記
- Optional English Subtitles
- English subtitles
- REGION-A "LOCKED"
