Hot Summer Days (Chuen sing yit luen - yit lat lat)
  • Release Date: Oct 1, 2010
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  • Summary: During Hong Kong's hottest summer on record, seven stories crisscross, magically intertwining and affecting each other: A chauffeur and a foot masseuse romance through text messages, unaware of each other's identities; an innocent factory girl asks her admirer to stand outside in the heat for 100 days to prove his love; a sushi chef prepares the perfect meal so that the food critic he loves will stay with him forever; a blinded photographer must locate the beautiful model he insulted; an old man desperately searches for an antique light bulb for the shrine of his late wife and each night an air conditioner repairman challenges a mystery girl to a road race. Intense temperature sparks intense emotions and the fates of these couples are tested when a blackout spreads across Hong Kong and the city falls into chaos. (Fox International Productions)

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    70
    While the film is slight, predictable, and familiar, it's great popcorn fare.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Sheri Linden
    50
    Unlike the similarly multi-strand "Valentine's Day," Hot Summer Days has heart, however overstated most of its action.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    50
    Hot Summer Days makes a lukewarm case for global warming. It's a better argument that the production of mindless fluff is not just limited to Hollywood.
  4. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Eric Hynes
    20
    It's less a film than one long advertisement for itself-and for the fact that mindless entertainment truly knows no borders.

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