Synopsis
After her father died, a Hong Kong girl discovers she has two hitherto unknown sisters, one in Taiwan and one in China. To settle her father's debt, she must reunite with them to run the family's hot pot restaurant.
Fagara
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Alternative Titles
心灵火锅, 我的爱如此麻辣, Hua Jiao Zhi Wei, 화초지미, 아버지의 마라탕, Вкус перца
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China
05 Oct 2019
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South Korea
Busan International Film Festival
Theatrical limited
13 Sep 2019
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USA
Theatrical
06 Sep 2019
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China
12 Sep 2019
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Hong KongI
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SingaporePG
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Taiwan
13 Sep 2019
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Canada
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Canada
13 Sep 2019
- Theatrical
China
24 Aug 2019
- Premiere
06 Sep 2019
- Theatrical
Hong Kong
12 Sep 2019
- TheatricalI
Singapore
12 Sep 2019
- TheatricalPG
South Korea
05 Oct 2019
- Premiere Busan International Film Festival
Taiwan
12 Sep 2019
- Theatrical
USA
13 Sep 2019
- Theatrical limited
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While in disharmony, feelings of distress between children and parents and vice versa, feeling self-righteous between them, which formulates a conflict of misinterpretations between them but the issue of time also affects their home.
Massive levels of love and hate and those moments that are the closest thing, a sequence of frames that have various parts of a segment but have the same core meaning of them.
In mourning motion, blastwaves melodramatic wrap around the entirety that evoked their moments and was adorned with the sharpest displays of family life and tragic periods yet sometimes they were wholesome and optimistic postured even in the gut sediments of having a load.
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Fagara has a kind, sweet and forgiving heart. I loved its visual style and peculiarity. The outcast characters were delightful to follow, including their funky outfits. This film is quiet but has something important to say when it speaks. It spoke to me personally and left me in streams of tears. It's a very comforting film that I would recommend for that reason! A five star from the heart.
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Thanks to a proliferation of streaming companies with a voracious need for content, the ease of buying DVDs internationally, and the efforts of small theatrical distributors like China Lion and Well Go, it has now become routine that we in the U.S. get to see movies from East Asia the way they were meant to be seen. We don’t even have Harvey Weinstein around sitting on the rights to movies for years or chopping them up according to his bizarre whims anymore. And best of all, these companies are doing more than just releasing action movies. In the five years I’ve been following the releases of Chinese films in North American theatres, I’ve seen movies from all kinds of genres:…
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Collective fragrancies through the heart and lungs let loose in revealing feeling. Sister trios in gentle degree. Cuisine in road's urbanity.
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taps into that latent childhood fantasy we all have that maybe I've got a fun secret family somewhere full of cool siblings who will share their toys or process their deep-seated trauma with me
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What genre do such films fall under? I loved it! The sisters were strong in their own unique way! This reminded me of Little Big Women by Joseph Hsu. Please recommend me something similar!
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52 Filme von (52) Frauen – 2020 №48/52
Nach dem plötzlichen Tod ihres Vaters müssen drei, sich bis dahin unbekannte, Schwestern (Hong Kong, China und Taiwan) sich um dessen Nachlass kümmern - dazu gehört auch ein gut laufendes Hotpot-Restaurant.
Jede der drei sehr unterschiedlichen und speziellen Charaktere hat aber ihr eigenes mehr oder minder schweres Päckchen zu tragen. Das Standard-Rezept heißt dann wohl: alte Erinnerungen durchleben, etwas Romantik für unterwegs, Entschluss fassen, zusammenfinden, zusammenraufen, die eigenen Probleme lösen und natürlich viel leckeres Essen kochen damit alle glücklich werden. Dies bleibt aber erfreulich lange genügend komplex und ernst genug, mit schönen, starken Bildern und Momenten ohne ins melodramatisch-überzogene zu driften.
Erst in Richtung letzten Gang gibt es für den europäischen Gaumen… -
Heiward Mak, you have my heart for this one. Firstly for creating an all sister bonding-over-grief film where characters actually interacted like real people. Secondly for the right balance of feel good and melodrama. I could say you knew what you were doing. You knew women bonding over food and grief is a trope that has me on a chokehold. Thirdly for getting Sammy Cheng and Andy Lau back together. They're one of my favourite on-screen couples from hk cinema. Even if there were hardly few moments of them together I felt fed. Extra perks for assembling a fantastic cast damn! All of them charming and sweet. Every relationship and every conversation full of heart, adoration and love. Reminded me…
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grief, regret and forgiveness. it’s a beautiful movie from its characters and the love heiward mak has for them to how it’s written and the look of it. cherry, acacia & branch only meet (and learn that they’re related) after their father dies but their connection is immediate and sweet and tender. anything about sisterhood has the power to get to me.
all that said: the cgi cockroach stole the show
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It has been far too long since I have seen a Sammi Cheng film. I missed you. As soon as I saw her sitting at her desk, I felt nostalgic for all the films she has been in. Hard to imagine her debut was thirty years ago and that she is nearing fifty. Often a death knell for actresses in every film industry. She still looks fabulous even playing a character who makes no attempt to look glamorous and rarely gives us that Sammi smile that has charmed so many films. Over the years she has grown so much as a singer turned actress and her performance here cuts to the bone without a false note or being overly emotive.…
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Stories imbued with the spirit of food and community, like Fagara, are such an enjoyable experience. As far as feel good movies go, strong food related themes will always go a long way towards my enjoyment and put a giant smile on my face. Food drama as a subgenre has a certain richness to it and mostly pertains to a celebration of life. Fagara is the celebration of all these familiar themes of togetherness, but specifically in the scope of loss. It's an emotional film about sisters and distant fathers. It's not original or new, but intriguing and joyful nevertheless.
However, despite the film's basic plotting, Heiward Mak frames this film in certain ways that speaks to deeply ingrained character…
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