Super Pop Taipei
Combined programme
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IFFR 2009
The serious Taiwan also has a popular, even vulgar side. Exuberant satires on everything that can be satirized. With pleasure.
In this combined programme
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Passing Eyes
At first it just looks funny. Droll girl with large sunglasses in huge Taipei. But there’s an undertone. Undertones aren’t cheerful. -
Herstory
You can describe a film as smoothly cut, but that is an understatement in this case. Talking freely about sex, you could also say. That… -
Intoxicant
Imaginative political satire. Whether the source of the satire can be followed so far from Taiwan remains to be seen, but it’s stunning. -
My Superpower Girl
Exuberant collage of everything that is pop and camp in Taiwan. With Julie, who really is a superpower girl, but her parents won’t let her… -
Viva Taiwan Moooooovie
Taiwanese film gangsters used to the most dangerous crooks in cinema. But they have disappeared from film. That has to change.