June 19, Written By (Hong Kong) kicks off NY Asian Film Festival 2009

"Lau Ching-wan plays a lawyer who dies in a car accident, leaving his daughter, Melody, blind and making his wife a widow. To cheer up her mom, Melody writes a book in which the family died but dad survived. And in her book, to cheer himself up, dad decides to write a book in which he died in the accident but his wife and daughter survived….and so it goes in an endlessly recursive loop as the dead are resurrected in fiction, which bleeds into reality, which turns into tragedy which sends the story spinning off into greater and grander realms of fantasy as mourning children and their parents attempt to have one more minute, just another thirty seconds, with their departed loved ones.
Using the form of the Hong Kong melodrama, the movie is shot like a yuppie fantasia full of improbably large apartments, photogenic cemeteries and antique street cars running through the city. But these glam trappings hide a troubled heart in which life is hard and only fiction can protect us from the sharp edges."