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Taipei Story

Qingmei zhuma
dir. Edward Yang
Taiwan 1985, 119’
subtitles: Polish and English

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Polish premiere
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Th 17 Nov, 20:30
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St 19 Nov, 10:00
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World premiere: BFI London FF 1985
Credits
Taiwan 1985
Duration: 119’
director: Edward Yang
screenplay: Chu T’ien-wen, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang
cinematography: Yang Wei-han
editing: Wang Chi-yang, Sung Fan-chen
music: Edward Yang
cast: Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tsai Chin, Ko I-Chen
producer: Huang Yung, Lin Jung-feng, Liu Sheng-chung
production: Evergreen Film Company
language: Hokkien, Mandarin, English
colouration: colour
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Film description

Thirty-year-old A-Lung returns from the US to Taipei to visit his fiancee, A-Chin, who works at an architectural design office. Disappointed by the lack of opportunities for continuing his beloved baseball career, he contemplates getting married and emigrating to America. Confronted with their different life experiences, the couple’s deep childhood bond is put to a test.

Taipei Story is told using short episodes and small gestures, coming together to create the picture of Taipei of the end of the 20th century and its growing conflict between tradition and modernity. The rising independence and power of women starkly contrasts with toxic masculinity. The urban landscape highlights this discord, completes the psychological and class portraits of the characters, and reflects Taiwan’s complex history – especially its colonial past and the neocolonial present. The gigantic Fuji billboard, an old Japanese-style bar, a blackout at a club where young people are dancing to Kenny Loggins’ Footloose. Taipei Story is one of the cinema’s best and fullest representations of the urban fabric.

text:
Maja Korbecka

Edward Yang

Born in 1947 in Shanghai. His father came from a southern province Guangdong, his mother from Hebei in the north of China. Born as the children of impoverished intelligentsia, they both worked as office clerks in the nationalist government structures. Two years after Yang was born, the communist party took over the reins in China, and the family moved to Taipei. Despite his fascination with literature and film, Yang chose to study engineering. After graduating, he moved to the US to continue his education in digital design. He spent seven years working as a coder in Seattle and then decided to return to Taiwan to pursue a career in film. In 1983, after creating his short film Desires, a part of an anthology film In Our Time, the founding oeuvre of the Taiwanese New Wave, Yang directed his almost three-hour-long debut That Day, on the Beach. Over the three decades of his career, Yang made a wide variety of films. His third feature, a postmodern tragicomedy Terrorizers, was a big box office success and a hit among the critics, bringing Yang the 1987 Silver Leopard at the festival in Locarno, and the title of the Best Film at the Golden Horse Film Awards. Yang’s later films – the award-winning, epic reconstruction of Taipei of the 1960s, A Brighter Summer Day, the comedy A Confucian Confusion, and the gangster film Mahjong – turned out to be box office flops. Yang’s last film, the Japanese co-production A One, and a Two, brought him the Best Director award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. After the Cannes win, Yang started working on several different projects – the animation The Wind, a website with auteur comic books Miluku.com, and the script for the adaptation of Lust, Caution, but did not finish any of them. Yang died of colon cancer in California in 2007.

Selected filmography:

1982 W naszym czasie / Guangyin de gushi / In Our Time (segment Oczekiwanie / Zhiwang / Expectation)

1983 Tego dnia na plaży / Haitan de yi tian / That Day, on the Beach

1985 Historia z Tajpej / Qingmei zhuma / Taipei Story

1986 Terroryści / Kongbu fenzi / Terrorizers

1991 Jasny dzień lata / Gulingjie shaonian sharen shijian / A Brighter Summer Day

1994 Konfucjańska konsternacja / Duli shidai / A Confucian Confusion

2000 I raz, i dwa / Yi Yi / A One and a Two

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