Hong Kong superstar Maggie Cheung gives a revelatory performance as an aspiring singer attempting to get her life back on track in Olivier Assayas' delicately rendered drama about addiction and recovery. Intensely disliked by the friends and fans of Lee Hauser (Gallon Drunk's James Johnston), an '80s rocker whose fame has faded in inverse proportion to his heroin use, former European veejay and demicelebrity Emily Wang (Cheung) has long been considered Lee's Yoko: an unbearable shrew whose interference wrecked a once-glorious career. After Lee suffers a fatal overdose in a British Columbia motel, Emily becomes his Courtney Love, the junkie albatross whom many unfairl...
Released:
2004
Rated:
R
Length:
110 mins