Review of Break Up Club (2010) by Mattias E — 23 Oct 2010

Break Up Club reunites beautiful screen couple Jaycee Chan and Fiona Sit in a bittersweet relationship drama/comedy, displaying director Barbara Wong's acute understanding of youth related issues. The film is exquisitely local, not only in the geographical sense, but also in it's honest, and sometimes not so flattering, portrayal of young people in modern HK.

Chan and Sit are a decidedly realistic couple, annoyingly shallow and adorably cute in turns. Wong's chosen format, semi-mockumentary and meta in a slightly too elaborate manner, is rather questionable, however, as it places the director herself in an unbecomingly important position in the framework of the movie, which in the end also negatively influences the otherwise genuinely emotive end effective story arch.