Jiu shi liu liu de ta

As light and airy as a cream puff, this Taiwanese entry in the romcom genre from director Hou Hsiao-hsien is certainly sweet, but maybe a little too sweet. It's notable for being Hou's first film, as well as for starring pop diva Feng Fei-Fei, the "Queen of Hats," opposite singer/songwriter/actor Kenny Bee. The pair perform a few songs on the soundtrack, played over action like them riding bikes, and him crashing after noticing her pedaling by. You get the idea, there's a lot of corniness here. She plays a young woman who's being set up by her rich parents to a guy she hasn't even met, but then meets a surveyor out in the country. Her prospective husband turns up, leading to the softest love triangle you can imagine, and an awfully convenient way of resolving things. The film isn't very memorable, but it did have me thinking of another of Feng Fei-Fei's songs from the period, Hao Hao Ai Wo (Love Me Well), which I guess has a permanent place in my mind, so it had that going for it.