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Tai Tai, the first short directed by Nicholas Chin, is a small film about the decadence of Hong Kong society, trying to capture the silences, the claustrophobia and quiet pain of a tai tai’s private life in contrast to the ostentatious glamour of her social life. And director Chin\\\\\\\'s first feature Magazine Gap Road is also about a world high above the commerce and crowds of Hong Kong, a secluded enclave of wealth and privilege. Samantha is a curator for a private museum in this rarefied world, a world where her past (a life spent in the Japanese fleshtrade) is her most well-kept secret -- until it catches up with her in a single phone call from Kate, another escort, who’s in trouble. For Samantha, helping Kate means going back to the world she escaped and risking everything – her budding romance with a wealthy antiques collector, the deadly men who run Hong Kong’s high-class prostitution ring, and most importantly, her own fears that beneath the veneer of respectability, she’ll always be for sale. |
