Three female convicts transferred to the New Life Correction Center for communists and traitors on Green Island (formerly known as Bonfire Island) are subjected to unspeakable humiliation and abuse in Zero Chou’s dark drama “Untold Herstory”, that has just had its European premiere at IFFR. The year is 1953, and the White Terror period is in full swing. Many people, most of them students, are being apprehended for innocent offenses such as saying something wrong, reading banned (mainly leftist) books, or for being related or befriended to the ‘enemies of the state’. Some are being reported as spies as a spiteful act of retaliation, and others for refusing men’s advances. Only few can call themselves guilty, if being a communist is still considered a crime.
Untold Her Story screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam
“Untold Herstory” pulls many tricks out of the epic historical dramas hat:...
Untold Her Story screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam
“Untold Herstory” pulls many tricks out of the epic historical dramas hat:...
- 2/10/2023
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
Within the context of her Six-City Rainbow Project, “Secrets of 1979” harks back at director Zero Chou’s life, whose relatives have also been banana farmers in Southern Taiwan, much like the family of one of the protagonists of her feature. The story is set during the time of martial law, a decisive time for the nation which not only brought many changes, but also much conflict, in society as well as the family, as the smallest social unit. Originally planned for a TV release in Taiwan, “Secrets of 1979” will also be screened at several festivals, including Queer East Film Festival, where it receives its UK premiere.
Secrets of 1979 screened at Queer East Film Festival
Willing to follow a different path than the one her parents have in mind for her future, student Shu-lan (Daphne Low) has moved to Taiwan, where she not only hopes to continue her studies, but also...
Secrets of 1979 screened at Queer East Film Festival
Willing to follow a different path than the one her parents have in mind for her future, student Shu-lan (Daphne Low) has moved to Taiwan, where she not only hopes to continue her studies, but also...
- 10/2/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
According to some sources, Zero Chou is the only openly lesbian filmmaker in Taiwan, so it does not come as a surprise that she often tackles LGBTQ+-related topics. For her second feature film “Spider Lilies” (2007), she was awarded with the Teddy Award at Berlinale. After nearly a decade of work predominantly on television and on documentaries, she is back with her newest feature “Wrath of Desire”, which premiered in the more radical Rebels With a Cause competition at Tallinn Black Nights. As it is suggested in a short graphic before the opening credits, it is the first instalment of the intended six-film series about LGBTQ+ romances set in the different East-Asian cities.
“Wrath of Desire” is screening at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
After a prologue set on a beach in an imaginary world, presumably in the afterlife, we meet Phoenix Du (Peace Yang) as she is being attacked...
“Wrath of Desire” is screening at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
After a prologue set on a beach in an imaginary world, presumably in the afterlife, we meet Phoenix Du (Peace Yang) as she is being attacked...
- 12/4/2020
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
Updated through 6/10.
To Hellman and Back: An Evening with Monte Hellman is set for this evening at the Walter Reade Theater, and here's how the New York Times' Dave Kehr recommends you be there if you can: "The undisputed master of the existential road movie (Two-Lane Blacktop, 1971) will be present for a 6 pm sneak preview of his new feature, Road to Nowhere, to be followed by a rare screening of Mr Hellman's magnificently bleak adaptation of Charles Willeford's novel Cockfighter, starring Warren Oates as an itinerant gambler. A discussion with Mr Hellman follows the screening, as does a book party celebrating the reissue of the Willeford novel from PictureBox Books."
"Combining an almost quaint self-reflexiveness with state-of-the-art digital filmmaking, Road concerns the production of a film based on a controversial lovers' double-suicide in North Carolina," explains Nick Pinkerton in the Voice. "Director Mitchell Haven (Tygh Runyan) is determined to...
To Hellman and Back: An Evening with Monte Hellman is set for this evening at the Walter Reade Theater, and here's how the New York Times' Dave Kehr recommends you be there if you can: "The undisputed master of the existential road movie (Two-Lane Blacktop, 1971) will be present for a 6 pm sneak preview of his new feature, Road to Nowhere, to be followed by a rare screening of Mr Hellman's magnificently bleak adaptation of Charles Willeford's novel Cockfighter, starring Warren Oates as an itinerant gambler. A discussion with Mr Hellman follows the screening, as does a book party celebrating the reissue of the Willeford novel from PictureBox Books."
"Combining an almost quaint self-reflexiveness with state-of-the-art digital filmmaking, Road concerns the production of a film based on a controversial lovers' double-suicide in North Carolina," explains Nick Pinkerton in the Voice. "Director Mitchell Haven (Tygh Runyan) is determined to...
- 6/10/2011
- MUBI
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