Love Lies

Love Lies (2024)

我談的那場戀愛

Love, once believed, is real.

A widowed gynecologist develops an online romance with a con artist who's posing as a French petroleum engineer.

Date of release
2024-08-23
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 54m
Genres
Romance, Comedy
Director
Ho Miu-Kei

Casting

Interesting facts

Love Lies is a 2024 Hong Kong romance film directed and co-written by Ho Miu Ki, marking her directorial debut as part of the First Feature Film Initiative. Starring Sandra Ng and MC Cheung Tin-fu, the film revolves around a melancholic romance that develops from an online scam, featuring a lonely doctor (Ng) who falls prey to a scammer (Cheung).

Production

After the production of the comedy film Meow (2017), screenwriter Ho Miu Ki did not receive any new film contracts due to the rising trend of police action films and the COVID-19 pandemic. During this time, she saw news reports about police cracking an internet scam syndicate, which included scripts for acting out their fraud found in their lair, sparking her interest in the scamming activities.

Due to a limited budget, Chan reached out to various costume and art designers he knew to join the production team for reduced pay or even for free. He also invited Sandra Ng to join the cast, and she accepted the offer immediately after reading the script. Ng declined a fixed paycheck, opting to work for free instead, agreeing to receive a bonus only if the box office was successful.

Principal photography began on 6 June 2023. Location shooting occurred on 16 June at an industrial building in Fo Tan, Shatin District, where Sandra Ng, MC Cheung Tin-fu, Stephy Tang, and contestants from a talent show hosted by the YouTube channel Running Team were spotted on set. Filming also took place at Central Piers on 21 June. The crew then moved to Japan, shooting in Furano, Hokkaido on 4 July.

Love Lies's theme song "Penpal" was performed by MC Cheung Tin-fu and composed by Day Tai, with lyrics co-written by Pakkin Leung and director Ho Miu Ki. A music video was released on 11 September 2024, a day before the film's theatrical release. Louis Koo's "Boyfriend" was featured in the official trailer, which Ho selected because she found the lyrics to be very similar to the film's plot.

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