Anna Magdalena

1998 [CANTONESE]

Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Music / Romance

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 68%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 68% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 559 559

Plot summary

Two young men fall for the woman staying upstairs when she practises J.S. Bach's "Notebook for Anna Magdalena".

Director

Chung-Man Yee Photo
Chung-Man Yee

Top cast

Aaron Kwok Photo
Aaron Kwok as Yau Muk-yan
Takeshi Kaneshiro Photo
Takeshi Kaneshiro as Chan Kar-fu
Josie Ho Photo
Josie Ho as Michelle
Eric Tsang Photo
Eric Tsang as (Guest star)
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897.84 MB
1280*714
Cantonese 2.0
NR
Subtitles cn  
24 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds ...
1.63 GB
1920*1072
Cantonese 2.0
NR
Subtitles cn  
24 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by donleavy

Soulful bespectacled Takeshi's heart-breaking performance

This movie stars 3 Chinese pop stars, so on the surface, it's like a Chinese equivalent of such American teeny-bopper fare as Dawson's Creek. But of course, it's much better.The story has a more thoughtful and philosophical bent to it, and doesn't have silly and manipulative romantic entanglements like its American counterparts. That is, no one whines about their broken heart very much - but you still feel the pain.Takeshi Kaneshiro is the best of the 3 leads as a lovelorn but reserved loner, and he conveys a lot of emotion while being very subtle. The other 2 actors, Kelly Chan and Aaron Kwok, are fine, too.The all-important novel that Takeshi's character writes fulfills its promise of being an artlessly simple but incredibly sweet love story.I'm increasingly impressed by foreign movies and their ability to convey the complexity of love, while by contrast, most American movies seem to make it much simpler and less realistic. This movie is one such foreign movie.Leslie Cheung & Anita Yuen have small but effective roles as 2 people touched by the novel that Chan Kar-fu (Takeshi) writes.
Reviewed by coconutkungfu-30704 10 / 10

A Movie I Love

I absolutely adore this HK dramadey. The acting is wonderful, the music is beautiful, and the story is told expertly. Everything about this movie just makes me feel good and I absolutely adore it. Highest possible recommendation.
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