Recent local reviews have suggested that Perhaps Love tries to do everything and succeeds at nothing, but obviously for musical fans it has much to offer in the way of romantic plot, star-studded cast, and high production values Moreover I would probably watch anything with the gorgeous (formerly just ultra-cute) Takeshi Kaneshiro in it and another local wrote that his performance is the one that has the most emotion in it, surprising for him. I wanted to go to the opening event (which this is) at the SFIFF and the closing one (Altman's Prairie Home Companion) but you have to be invited to these as press, you are not given passes, I didn't try to get invited, and they're both officially sold out. I can't say I enjoy mob scene, which the Werner Herzog special event was, but the people I went with were big fans of Herzog, and it lived up to expectations, both the man and his new movie. I suppose Kang is Tsai's Jean-Pierre Léaud, but would hope the relationship were more ironic in the former case, and wouldn't want to think Tsai wound up as a small-time porn actor. Whether that is a step up from selling watches on the street I don't know...