A Simple Life (2011) on Netflix
Roger Leung, a Hong Kong film producer, finds the family maid, Chung Chun-to, collapsed after a stroke. She chooses to retire and move into a nursing home.
- Netflix4.2/5
- IMDb7.5/106,720 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes94%
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Plot summary
Chung Chun-to has looked after the household of the Leung family for many years, living alongside Roger Leung, an unmarried middle-aged film producer in Hong Kong. Coming back from a business trip, he finds her lying on the ground and telephones for an ambulance. In the hospital he is told that she has suffered a stroke. She decides to stop working and asks to enter a home for the elderly. While looking for a suitable place, Roger learns of a nursing home nearby that belongs to a friend.
Cast
- Man-sze Yuas Sharon
- So-Ying Huias Mui
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Simple Life (2011)
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- Deanie Ip won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her role in A Simple Life, becoming the first Hong Konger to win the prize.
- Ann Hui considered retiring after making A Simple Life, but the film's success changed her mind and she went on to work on other projects.
- Andy Lau wrote a book, My 30 Work Days, from diaries he kept while shooting A Simple Life, holding 30 diaries and notes and 300 behind the scenes photographs; Ming Pao Publications released it on 27 February 2017.
- Deanie Ip was 64 when she became the oldest Best Actress recipient at the Hong Kong Film Awards, where Ann Hui has won Best Director four times, more than anyone else.
- At the 31st Hong Kong Film Awards, A Simple Life won five major prizes — film, director, screenplay, actor and actress — repeating what happened with Ann Hui's Summer Snow in 1996.
- Andy Lau and Deanie Ip were chosen partly for their closeness: Ip is Lau's godmother and had already played his mother in several films.
- Producer Roger Lee wrote loose fragments and showed them to Ann Hui, who persuaded him they were enough for a screenplay and encouraged him through his writing.
