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Ciao UFO Review
In 1985, four working-class characters are bonded forever by a strange sighting in this sentimental saga that tracks their lives into adulthood.
TL;DR
- The film jumps between different time frames, showing characters as children in the mid-1980s and as adults in the 1990s and early 2000s.
- A key incident involves four children on a Hong Kong housing estate seeing a UFO in 1985, an experience that bonds them.
- The adult characters pursue different goals: one seeks wealth in the booming stock market after the 1997 handover, another lives with the shadow of childhood leukemia, and a third becomes a beauty and accountant planning marriage.
- The film is described as a realist drama rather than science fiction, with the evolving city as a character.
- Despite being made in 2019, the film's international release is only now, feeling relevant due to current stock market volatility.