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Friday, June 24, 2022
The Night Belongs to Us - released as part of 对立面 short film anthology
Saturday, June 11, 2022
Madame Figaro April 2022 - #TongYao #童瑶 - Interview Translation
#心居 #LifeIsALongQuietRiver #微暗之火 #PaleFire
I still don't intend to prioritise interview translations over reviews but this article contains some interesting information on two drama series, with information on 微暗之火 (Pale Fire) being particularly interesting. The production of this drama has been shrouded in mystery and, to my knowledge, up till this point, Tong Yao had not yet officially talked about it except for a few cryptic references on Weibo. This is the main reason why I decided to translate this interview. There is at least one more interview of interest with regards to Pale Fire. I may translate that in the future, if I do, I'll link it on the Page (Click Me).
First, some disclaimers, my Chinese isn't the best and some of what was written in this article have no direct equivalent in English or have nuances that were hard to translate easily so I just did the best I could. I will place a link to a copy of the article in Chinese on this page so that those who can read Chinese can also read the article in the language it was originally written in. (CLICK ME)
Also, please note that for ease of reference, I will refer to 微暗之火 as Pale Fire in the article even though I don't think it's the official English title.
Saturday, June 04, 2022
Stepmother Xu Duoduo - Short Review
Stepmother Xu Duoduo aka The Blended Family is a contemporary series that was shot and set in Xiamen, China. The story centres around Xu Duoduo (Tong Yao), a young television drama screenplay writer who meets plastic surgeon Wen Shuping (Wang Zhifei) in a series of amusing encounters before eventually falling in love and marrying the much older man.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Life Is A Long Quiet River #心居 - long commentary
A COMMENTARY WITH MAJOR SPOILERS (read at your own risk)
Saturday, May 14, 2022
Life Is A Long Quiet River #心居 - short review
#TongYao #童瑶 #HaiQing #海清 #ZhangSongwen #张颂文 #FengShaofeng #冯绍峰 #JieBing #节冰 #SunAnke #孙安可 #DongQing #董晴 #LuSiyu #陆思宇 #TengHuatao #滕华涛
A SHORT SPOILER FREE REVIEW
Life is a Long Quiet River is a contemporary series set in Shanghai in the Autumn of 2017. The series is centred around two protagonists played superbly by Tong Yao and Hai Qing, They play a pair of sisters-in-law who are superficially cordial but who actually dislike and mistrust each other privately.Tong Yao plays Gu Qingyu, a very successful executive in a multinational investment bank. She owns her own apartment and pretty much everything she wears is from luxury brands like Giorgio Armani, Dior, Chanel etc just to name a few and she looks effortlessly elegant in them. (Aside: Tong Yao looks stunning in this series.) She's independent, forthright, practical and rational but can also be dispassionate, acerbic and sarcastic.
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
#TongYao #童瑶 #ZhangXincheng #张新成 #WeWillGrowOldTogether #爱情回想 - review
Sunday, March 27, 2022
#TongYao #童瑶 #TheNewYearEveofOldLee #过年好 - Film - short review
The New Year's Eve of Old Lee - 过年好
I finally got around to watching this in part to see if it's any good and in part to check out Tong Yao's cameo in this film. It's not bad but it's also not great. It's merely a relatively generic story about an elderly man, Mr. Lee, who's suffering from Alzheimer's disease. His daughter Yang Duo just found out about it and returns immediately with her daughter Julie in tow to celebrate the Spring Festival. Several simmering grievances surface during this short visit leading to several tense moment but given that this is a Lunar New Year film, you can expect a happy ending. Which means, in a film like this, the journey is more important than the conclusion.