A Simple Life 2011 123movies

Watch: 桃姐 2011 123movies, Full Movie Online – After suffering a stroke, an altruistic maid announces that she wants to quit her job and move into an old people’s home..
Plot: The relationship between a middle-aged man and the elderly woman, who has been the family’s helper for sixty years.
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Ratings:

	7.5/10 Votes: 5,983
	94% | RottenTomatoes
	78/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 135 Popularity: 12.1 | TMDB

Reviews:

A film about human kindness
‘A simple life’ is a film about human kindness. About caring for others. About harmonious human relationships. Does this sound cheesy? It’s not meant that way. The film shows how caring for one another can make a difference, but it’s never sentimental and there’s no tear jerking at all.

The story centres around A Tao, a housekeeper who cooks and cleans for film producer Roger, who is not married and travels a lot. When returning home from one of his travels from Hong Kong to mainland China, A Tao doesn’t open the door. She has had a stroke and after her stay in the hospital, she moves to an old people’s home. Roger visits her regularly and gradually they become closer. At the start of the movie they are employer and employee, at the end they are friends.

Director Ann Hui shows this process with small, symbolic scenes. When A Tao serves Roger his food in one of the first scenes, only one word is spoken, when she asks him to move something on the table to make room for the dish she has prepared. The contrast with another key scene, later on in the movie, is huge. After A Tao has recovered from the stroke, Roger takes her to the first screening of his new film and introduces her to movie stars as his godmother. Afterwards, they walk away hand in hand, chattering affectionately about the film business.

A Tao visibly enjoys this party, and the attention she receives from her ‘godson’. This is just one of the examples of the wonderful acting by Deannie Yip, a famous actress in the Hong Kong film industry but unknown to the rest of the world. In this film, she seemingly effortlessly plays A Tao first as a humble servant, then as a physically handicapped patient and also as a coquettish lady. How wonderful it must have been for her to receive a ‘best actress’-award at the Venice Film Festival for her part as A Tao.

The film focuses on the relationship between Roger and A Tao, and the development of their mutual appreciation. Apart from that, not much really happens. There are some humorous little scenes that will make you smile, as well as some more emotional ones. This is a slow and low-profile film, to be appreciated by a typical art-house audience.

An sentimental elderly movie
As population is ageing quickly in the world, elderly film need to be produced to reflect the reality. This movie is like a virtual show of an elderly maid to a family. She is still single, like all other live in maids in the past.

The scene in elderly homes depicts the harsh truth of poor elderly care in Hong Kong. The lack of space makes it difficult to provide more land for elderly home.

The acting of both leads is superb. A brave act of Andy Lau to produce such a film with a not so popular genre. But the result is non stop award winning. If I had remembered correctly the female lead is 7 times Best Actress in various movie award ceremonies around the world.

Thank you Andy Lau to create such a moving movie for HK.

And I just cannot figure out why the overall score is not ten.

Also see As long as you live, a HK TV Series, and Intouchables, a French movie, both on elderly issues

Other Information:

Original Language cn
Runtime 1 hr 58 min (118 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 2802459
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama
Director Ann Hui
Writer Susan Chan, Roger Lee
Actors Andy Lau, Deannie Ip, Hailu Qin
Country Hong Kong
Awards 38 wins & 27 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Red One Camera, Zeiss and Angenieux Lenses
Laboratory Cine Art Laboratory Ltd., Hong Kong (prints), Post Production Office (digital intermediate)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Redcode RAW
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Redcode RAW (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (spherical), D-Cinema