After suffering a stroke, an altruistic maid announces that she wants to quit her job and move into an old people's home.
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★★★★★
Ann Hui's "A Simple Life" is a poignant and melancholic film about the relationship between an old servant and her companion, a successful film producer to whose family the servant had been in service with. It is a beautiful, touching, and, more importantly, h...
★★★★★
I seriously do not know why it took this movie so long to be in the cinemas. It is one of the defining works of the year and essentially a simple movie about simple and unexplored characters of Hong Kong people. Ms Ann Hui is truly at her very best once again....
★★★★★
I saw this film during the film festival in Norway; it's been a long, long time since I watched a movie which captivated me even after the credit started to roll.
It's a movie which primarily focus on every little moment of an elderly woman, but it is never a...
★★★★★
This film is about a maid who is forced to retire after a stroke. Her life and the relationships around her change drastically.
"A Simple Life" is a touching story about a maid who has served a family for 60 years. She was seen as a servant in the beginning o...
★★★★★
Ah Tao has been working for Roger's family for 4 generations and more than sixty years. Everyone but Roger lives now in America, and Ah Tao takes care of Roger as he was still a little child. But then she has a stroke and can't work anymore. Ah Tao, seeing tha...
