I tried some Candy

This week there is an Asian Film Festival happening in Hong Kong and so I went to check out some of the movies.

I went to the IFC in Central and went for a showing of some independant Hong Kong short films. I like independant film because it is the voice of the little guy and I like that it is the alternative to mainstream rubbish.

When I got to the theater there was this small crowd in front and all these fans and photographers were taking shots of some lady posing in front of the Asian Film Festival backdrop. I stopped to get in to the crowd to see who it was, but I couldn't tell. She had a nice figure but I could see that her best years were past her and she was really heavy on the make up. So I blew past her and got my ticket for the show.

Anyhow I sat through the first movie and realized that the lady out front was the star of this indie movie. It was a low budget film that looked like it was filmed with a camcorder. The acting really sucked and the story made no sense at all. Even the editing was tiresome. At least the actress was pretty.

By the end of the last movie, I had settled into a visibly bored posture and may have let out a groan or two. Folks it was really not great.

Anyways, when the lights went up, a guy with a microphone went up on stage and to my surprise the cast of the first movie was in the audience the whole time. I hope they didn't hear the sound of my boredom. Anyways they had a Q&A session in Cantonese so I didn't know what was going on. The actress was in the centre of her co-stars and I really wasn't impressed with the lot of them. Since the last train was pulling out of Central, I got up and left in the middle of the spectacle.

So when I got home, on a lark, I googled the actresses' name; "Candy Lo". To my surprise she is actually a well known actress in Hong Kong and has done some movies that even I have heard of. What's more she is a successful singer in HK too.

Candy if you are reading this, email me and I'll make it up to you.