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"Cheung won the best actress award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival for her tour de force in Olivier Assayas’s uncompromising recovery drama. She fully immerses herself in the struggles of Emily Wang, a former video jockey who has lost access to her son due to her arrest for heroin possession and the related fatal overdose of her rock star boyfriend. It’s an astonishing meditation on the capacity for change, with Cheung transforming Emily from an abrasive figure to a humbled individual seeking a second chance. This was Cheung’s last lead role and she gestured to her future by singing three of the songs on the eclectic soundtrack." - British Film Institute

M | Moderate coarse language, Moderate drug references