Taipei Story
★★★★✭ "Played against harsh neon cityscapes, this is an uncompromising study of urban alienation and wasted lives." ~ Radio Times.
One of the key films of the New Taiwan Cinema of the 1980s, Taipei Story - now restored in 4K by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project - brings together three of the most significant figures of the movement: Edward Yang, Chu Tʻien-wen and Hou Hsiao-hsien.
Yang’s second feature, from 1985, is a mournful anatomy of a city caught between the past and the present.
Taipei Story chronicles the growing estrangement between a washed-up baseball player working in his family’s textile business and his girlfriend, who clings to the upward mobility of her career in property development.
As the couple’s dreams of marriage and emigration begin to unravel, Yang’s gaze illuminates the precariousness of domestic life and the desperation of Taiwan’s globalized modernity.
Languages:
Mandarin and Taiwanese
Subtitles:
Full English
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