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The Lyricist Wannabe

The Lyricist Wannabe

6,6 /10 (7 Votes)
2024 CN 110 min

Overview

Believing that writing Cantopop is her God-given talent, Law Wing-sze decides to make it her lifelong career. But as hard as Sze tries to polish her lyric-writing skills and expand her social circle, nothing seems to go her way. What if there’s a will, but there’s no way?

Release date

07/03/2024

Votes

7

Popularity

0.9

Genres

Status

Released

Original title

填詞L

Language

CN

Runtime

110 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2024-03-17

⭐ 7

Though it does labour the joke a little after a while, this is actually quite a fun story about a tenacious young student who is determined to be a lyricist. Despite the fact that her teacher (Pak Hon Chu) claims nobody ever makes money writing songs (he's clearly never heard of Don Black, or Sir Tim Rice or Bernie Taupin!), and the fact that she cannot actually read music, she perseveres. She's not having much luck though - most of her work ends up being "off-melody" - with some quite hilariously double-entendre consequences, but "Sze" (Suet-Ying Chung) is determined. Now it doesn't really he…

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