The Break-Up Club

Melwood Screening Room: May 8 @ 4:30PM, May 14 @ 4:00PM

Passes not accepted on Opening/Closing Night. Please arrive at least 15 minutes ahead of start time to ensure availability of seating. Film schedule and Q & A's are subject to change.

2010/Hong Kong/Director: Barbara Wong Chun-Chun/115 min
Cast: Jaycee Chan, Fiona Sit (Language: Cantonese)
The blurred line between fantasy and reality guide Joe through the turbulent seas of young love.
When the twenty-something’s lack of ambition and productivity continue to strain his relationship with Flora, she finally cuts him loose. But, Joe soon discovers the website, “Break Up Club,” which promises to reunite Joe, and all other dumpees, with his girlfriend, as long as he manages to break up another couple. Immediately breaking up his best friend’s relationship, Flora returns and perfection is restored…until she breaks his heart again.
Joe meets a filmmaker (Barbara Wong, as herself), who is making a documentary about young relationships and break-ups. After telling her about the strange website, Wong gives him a handheld camera to prove that the “Break Up Club” is real. It is with this camera that Joe captures the joys, pains and complexities of his first love. Despite her undeniable love for him, Flora’s frustrations with Joe continue to grow while she is simultaneously pursued by a suave visiting artist.
One of the biggest domestic box-office hits of the summer, the honest film explores modern relationships amongst today’s youth and the essential, sometimes painful, differences between men and women.
With irresistible onscreen chemistry, two of Hong Kong’s brightest talents shine in this funny and uber-hip romantic comedy that is the perfect blend of documentary-style filmmaking, improvisation, narrative and natural moments of pure, non-fictional love. Fleshing out the end of innocence and the realization that sacrifices must be made in the name in love, these flawed characters add a unique flavor to the young romantic film while Wong uses her experience as a documentary filmmaker to capture the incredible insatiable energy of being madly in love and the agonizing pain that comes with it.