Lockdown Lovers

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As I started his book, I found it both eerie and surreal to read about these events that we now know all too well. Lockdown Lovers is a story set across two continents, six humans and a pangolin, the mammal reportedly at the root of the virus. Top Ten British Film Actors of the 1970s who Didn’t Become Film Stars Stephen Vagg turns his eye to the British film industry of the 1970s and asks why a country that produced .

While they are reduced to “fearful, darting eyes”, they are also more human than ever, with their familiar prejudices and moments of dark humour, both comforted and bored by the “mundanity” of lockdown life. Instead, the stories of Kwok-Ying, Phoebe and John are understated, authentic, and unwaveringly real.

One of O’Sullivan’s three narrators is John, who is an Irish professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Books like Ying Ma’s Severance and Laurie Halse Anderson’s Fever 1793 also provided a counterintuitive calming effect.

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Throughout the novel, the lives of Kwok-Ying and John and Phoebe intersect briefly and inconsequentially but it wouldn’t matter if they didn’t. O’Sullivan’s unique and penetrative writing style reminds us of Hong Kong’s malleability and vulnerability to language.

Stream the full feature length movie NOW on Vimeo Special extended cut – over 2 hours long Includes EXCLUSIVE scenes you won’t see on YouTube Bonus behind the scenes interviews with the cast Support independent filmmakers to create uplifting lesbian love stories. Lockdown Lovers foregrounds a bleak emotional landscape, “an intense epidemic of loneliness”, which, though illuminated by the lockdown, seems to precede it. Years from now, perhaps someone will study the psychology of living through a pandemic and the various coping mechanisms we turn to.John winds up contracting the virus and being relocated to a quarantine centre on Lamma, where he reconnects with a young activist on the district council he had met previously. We also get regular updates and reflections on the time of lockdown from Phoebe Ho, Kwok-ying and a pangolin. With nowhere to go, Kristal accepts Lisette's invitation to stay with her, until the pandemic is over. Fast-forward six months and the couple decided to move in with Erica’s parents for the winter lockdown. The illusive and unreal Hong Kong, so fitting for the flâneur, has now become so regulated as to be almost unrecognisable.