Tribute to The Film Foundation 2021 / Gŭ lĭng jiē shàonián shārén shìjiàn / Taiwan 1991
The late Taiwanese’s masterwork is an epic tale charting the descent of a head-strong teenage boy from his seemingly orderly, middle-class life to juvenile delinquency. Set in Taipei in 1959, A Brighter Summer Day is an incessive study of displacement and loss of identity; a scorching coming-of-age story set against colossal political events, all laced with the director’s signature empathy.
The late Taiwanese’s masterwork is an epic tale charting the descent of a head-strong teenage boy from his seemingly orderly, middle-class life to juvenile delinquency. Set in Taipei in 1959, a decade after Mao’s communist party conquered Mainland China to render the independent Taiwan a hotbed for the raging cold war between the Chinese and the Americans, A Brighter Summer Day is an incessive study of displacement and loss of identity; a scorching coming-of-age story set against colossal political events; and an affectionate reverie of Yang’s teenhood – all laced with the director’s signature empathy. At 237 minutes, A Brighter Summer Day is by turns intimate and grand; violent and gentle; nostalgic and sober-minded; and a testament to the genius of one of cinema’s greatest luminaries.
Joseph Fahim
237 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Edward Yang
/ Screenplay Hung Hung, Lai Ming-tang, Edward Yang, Alex Yang
/ Dir. of Photography Huigong Li, Longyu Zhang
/ Music Hongda Zhang
/ Editor Bo-wen Chen
/ Producer Yu Wei-yen, Jan Hung-tze, Edward Yang
/ Production Yang & His Gang, Filmmakers, Jane Balfour Films
/ Cast Chang Chen, Lisa Yang, Chang Kuo-chu, Elaine Jin
/ Contact Cineteca di Bologna
Edward Yang - b. Yang Dechang (1947, Shanghai, China – 2007, Beverly Hills, California). Selected filmography: In Our Time (1982), That Day, on the Beach (1983), Taipei Story (1985), The Terrorizers (1986), A Brighter Summer Day (1991), A Confucian Confusion (1994), Mahjong (1996), Yi Yi (1999).
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