Romancing in Thin Air (Gao hai ba zhi lian II)

Name: Romancing in Thin Air (Gao hai ba zhi lian II)
Duration: 1 h 51 min

1hr 51m

3.8/5 (755)

1hr 51m
3.8/5 (755)

After the bride of a popular actor ran away with her first love at their wedding, he went into grieving. In a drunken stupor, he ends up in a hotel atop the… More Details »

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Director:

Johnnie To

Producer:

John Chong, Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai

Writer:

Jevons Au, Ka-Fai Wai, Nai-Hoi Yau

Runtime:

1hr 51m

Synopsis

After the bride of a popular actor ran away with her first love at their wedding, he went into grieving. In a drunken stupor, he ends up in a hotel atop the mountains. There, he finds love with a woman who is also grieving a lost love.

Cast

Louis Koo
Sammi Cheng
Yuanyuan Gao
Baoqiang Wang
Guangjie Li
Yi Huang
Chen Ji
Wilfred Lau
Oscar Ka Li
Tien Niu

Letterboxd User Reviews

3.8

RATINGS 21 FANS

3.8

Nov 22, 2012

To's work is already so outlandishly stylish it borders on the postmodern even at its most straightforward, but ironically, ROMANCING's breakdown of the barrier between the real world and the populist cinema that subtly informs our pop culture relies on some of his most…

185 Likes

Jake Cole

Feb 21, 2024

For P. It felt like forever. So long I wandered aimlessly around the forest, shivering among its thickets, cuts and bruises forming, lost with the spins in a fit of confusion as to which way to go, where to turn next, for the sharp chill of the darkness left me cold to the…

145 Likes

Jerry

Apr 21, 2023

Action! - Johnnie/Ringo's Hong Kong Actions: In The Mood For King To's Sweeping Realism Johnnie To continues with his mainstream romantic films, this time about a famous actor who ends up finding true love after publicly losing it and falling into both depression and…

120 Likes

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine
Dec 11, 2019

Review for InReview Online's Best of the Decade: A Hong Kong movie star played by Louis Koo is jilted at the altar by Gao Yuanyuan, his longtime on and off-screen partner. He drinks his way to the top of the world, somewhere high in the mountains of China called…

102 Likes

Sean Gilman

Feb 8, 2024

like an emotional atomic bomb. cinema as a tool to heal and to guide us towards a better life... johnnie to is the master of masters, unequaled. all the love in the world to this special, special movie.

95 Likes

comrade_yui

Jul 27, 2021

One of the most profoundly cathartic and validating works of art I have ever seen. Impossible to explain how much this moved me, all I can say is that it made me want to live a little more. Comfort cinema in the deepest, most transcendent sense.

91 Likes

Shea
Nov 27, 2021

The story of my life has always been a story of movies. As far back as I can remember I’ve been watching them, to the degree that many of my earliest memories involve movies. My first obsession came from even before that, though — when I was just 2 and a half years old, I…

89 Likes

Sean

Mar 9, 2022

the damsel-falling-in-love-with-her-favorite-actor trope? YES please. •romancing in thin air •the purple rose of cairo •mulholland drive •lost in translation (?) •persona (?) •camp rock EDIT: OMG CRITERION’S RELEASING the heroic trio!!!!

86 Likes

Christina

May 5, 2018

greatest movie ever made.

74 Likes

Logan Kenny