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Let’s Fall in Love
The Taiwanese marriage market cannot do without the energetic matchmaker Chen, who is specialised in notorious bachelors. Chen also tackles Wu, the maPublished on: -
Motel Erotica
Entanglements come to a surprising climax on the roof of a ‘love hotel’.Published on: -
Visage
Singing and dancing scenes tell without dialogue the story of a film maker – the alter ego of director Tsai Ming-liang – who wants to…Published on: -
Murmur of Youth
Ode to (Taiwanese) youth in the form of a portrait of the intimate relationship between two girls from very different backgrounds who both work as…Published on: -
Sleeping with Her
Appealing story about an old woman who is cared for by her Indonesian caretaker. As a family drama is unravelled, the ‘difficult’ woman’s motives arePublished on: -
March 14 2009, Hong Kong Coliseum
In an empty concert hall, star singer Fish Leong shares her deeper thoughts on the pan-Asian tour, in which every show follows a fixed pattern.Published on: -
Remembrance
A film with the nostalgic scent of good coffee. Farewell to a female dancer and a coffee shop. Tsai Ming-liang plays the man saying goodbye.Published on: -
Letting Off
A young man works at a convenience store and gets caught up in the lies he tells to avoid losing face. A realistic, yet hopeful…Published on: -
Madame Butterfly
Master filmmaker follows a woman at a bus station. These are all the ingredients for a captivating film. Tribute to Puccini, whom we neither see…Published on: -
A Brighter Summer Day
An epic historic gangster drama and coming-of-age story set in Taiwan in the 1960s is about the quest for one’s own identity against the background…Published on: