First Love and Other Pains / One of Them Movie Review 1999

Two gay shorts explore first love. In "First Love" (50 minutes), Hong Kong college student Mark begins an English lit course with a stern British professor, Hugh Graham. Depressed by creative burnout, Hugh is flattered by Mark's attentions and they have a one-nighter--at least in Hugh's mind because Mark is looking for a longer-lasting romance. Cantonese and English with subtitles. In "One of Them" (47 minutes), two gay teens in the 60s strike up a friendship that makes their small, boring town almost bearable.

Distribution

First Run Features, The Film Center Building, 630 Ninth Ave., Ste. 1213, New York, NY 10036, Phone: (212)243-0600, Toll-free: 800-229-8575, Fax: (212)989-7649, Email: info@firstrunfeatures.com, URL: http://www.firstrunfeatures.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 97 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Romantic Drama, Gays, Hong Kong, Period Piece: 1960s

Screenplay

Simon Chung, Peter Wells

Cast

Edward Strode, Alex Wong, Ciaran Pennington, Cameron J. Watt

Cinematography

Ping Hung Wong, Stewart Main

Director

Simon Chung, Stewart Main