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Esprit d'amour
Esprit d'amour is a 1983 Hong Kong supernatural romance film directed by Ringo Lam and starring Alan Tam, Shu-Chun Ni and Cecilia Yip. Shot in modern-day Hong Kong, the film centres on protagonist Koo Chi-Ming, a hapless insurance investigator who while investigating the death of a young women begins being haunted by her spirit.
Based on an original story by Raymond Wong, "Esprit d'amour" is credited as the very first film directed by Hong Kong director Ringo Lam better known for his
du cueur d'amour esprit" and the "Théséide", both in Vienna (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Codex 2597, 2617), dating from 1460–70, with sixteen and seven miniatures respectively. The "Livre du cueur d'amour esprit" was a courtly allegorical romance written (almost certainly) by René. This has spaces reserved for a further twenty-nine miniatures, and these are all completed in another manuscript by a much less brilliant artist, probably working from Barthélemy's drawings. This chivalric allegorical romance comes near the end of that