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Film description

"Tonight Nobody Goes Home" was a Pai Ching-jui's film made in 1969 and in the end everybody was going home. Except for the title and the comedy style, Sylvia Chang's movie is not exactly a remake. The Chen family is a normal model bourgeois family. But around Mr Chen 60th birthday everything seems to start collapsing and the ideal family shows a lot of disturbance: Mr Chen leaves the house to live with a young woman, his wife wants to divorce and also goes away with a gentle-heart gigolo, the daughter is not so sure she wants to get married anymore, the son, always after money, tries another business, a night-club that leads him to bankruptcy.

But all this mess allows the women to take a new start. Sylvia Chang uses the social comedy to introduce her criticism on a society obsessed with money and success. As usual in her film, she adopts a feminist discourse in which the mother goes from her traditional housekeeper role to the one of an independent worker becoming the head of the family.

Wafa Ghermani