The film’s sense of drifting, emotional tension, and the fragile space between intimacy and distance deeply resonates with many Hong Kongers who have migrated to the UK. Living in a foreign land while carrying the weight of the past, yet still searching for new possibilities, mirrors the emotional landscape portrayed in the movie. This work transforms one of its iconic scenes into feline form, using cats to gently and playfully reinterpret that loneliness and longing. The cats’ closeness and separation echo the contradictions and struggles of building a life away from home.

One line from the film — “Let’s start over” — is especially moving. It speaks not only to a relationship, but to life itself: when everything seems to have fallen apart, do we still have the courage to begin again? By reimagining a cinematic moment through cats, the piece preserves the romance and melancholy of the original while infusing it with the lived experience of a new generation of Hong Kong migrants. Through this work, we are not only paying tribute to the film, but also quietly telling ourselves: perhaps we really can start over.

2 days ONLY on 14-15th Feb at Exchange Square, Manchester