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Global economic crisis needs no translation in ‘Life Without Principle’

By Tom Russo

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  March 16, 2012

**1/2 Life Without Principle Hong Kong director Johnnie To (”Election”) reminds us that this has truly been a global economic crisis as he tracks the intersecting predicaments of three city dwellers amid an unsettling market plunge. Not all of the drama translates, but when, say, a desperate financial advisor (Denise Ho) shafts an unsuspecting senior, her guilt-stricken looks couldn’t be clearer. In Cantonese, with subtitles. (107 min., unrated) (Tom Russo)

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