why this film win the cannes award be not surprising and all political . french cinema be stale and dead . in tune with the year of china in france and forced globalization make them pick a hong kong legend to revive their cinema . but the film be a piece of nightmare . the script be bad and the scenery be bland . the editing be so slow it seem to be edit by my 93 year old grandma . the continuity be sketchy and the f stop be not even measure right for some scene . the only wonderful moment be when maggie cheung onto screen . the screen begin to light up and be fill with presence even without speech dialogue or anything . it show that perhaps olivier assayas be in love or at least infatuated with this asian star . but a film and like a marriage and need continuity and it need communication . the level of communication in this film be low and there be no character progress . the great part of the film be when maggie work in a chinese restaurant and quits and she speak something spontaneous in cantonese and which be very authentic . and the scene where she look for her son be heart breaking in it sensitivity a a lost mother . but the editing and soundtrack and in general the film make technique just suck so so baaaad . feel like a home movie .