A longer version of was premièred in Cannes than will be screened in Rotterdam, but this shorter version is a special, layered and original film with no less than ten protagonists, all of whom are connected in some way. Edward Yang: ‘Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, is a cutting-edge city: a crossroads for Western high technology and Eastern human values, a Mecca for achievers. As we approach the end of the 20th century, where better to midwife the birth of a new society, rooted in age-old Confucian ideals of social order but grappling with the stresses and strains of the quest for identity and personal growth?’
