Set against the backdrop of the student strike at the Department of Fine Arts of Chinese Culture University in 1994 Taiwan, “Who'll Stop the Rain” is equally a political film and a romantic drama, in a rather ambitious feature debut by Su I-hsuan, which netted Yeh Hsiao-Fei,one of the protagonists the Taipei Film Award for Best New Talent.
Who'll Stop the Rain is screening at BFI Flare
During the 1994 post-martial law period in Taiwan, 19-year-old Chi-wei arrives in Taipei to study art in a college. However, it turns out that the Chairman of the department, Yung-shing, is a rather old-fashioned professor, who expects his students to appear and behave “properly”, which immediately brings Chi-wei into trouble, for her uncombed hair and “rough” demeanor. Even more so, Yung-shing influences all the teachers in the department, with the girl starting to receive failing grades from the get go. It seems, however, that...
Who'll Stop the Rain is screening at BFI Flare
During the 1994 post-martial law period in Taiwan, 19-year-old Chi-wei arrives in Taipei to study art in a college. However, it turns out that the Chairman of the department, Yung-shing, is a rather old-fashioned professor, who expects his students to appear and behave “properly”, which immediately brings Chi-wei into trouble, for her uncombed hair and “rough” demeanor. Even more so, Yung-shing influences all the teachers in the department, with the girl starting to receive failing grades from the get go. It seems, however, that...
- 3/10/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Set against the backdrop of the student strike at the Department of Fine Arts of Chinese Culture University in 1994 Taiwan, “Who'll Stop the Rain” is equally a political film and a romantic drama, in a rather ambitious feature debut by Su I-hsuan, which netted Yeh Hsiao-Fei,one of the protagonists the Taipei Film Award for Best New Talent.
Who'll Stop the Rain is screening at Tokyo International Film Festival
During the 1994 post-martial law period in Taiwan, 19-year-old Chi-wei arrives in Taipei to study art in a college. However, it turns out that the Chairman of the department, Yung-shing, is a rather old-fashioned professor, who expects his students to appear and behave “properly”, which immediately brings Chi-wei into trouble, for her uncombed hair and “rough” demeanor. Even more so, Yung-shing influences all the teachers in the department, with the girl starting to receive failing grades from the get go. It seems,...
Who'll Stop the Rain is screening at Tokyo International Film Festival
During the 1994 post-martial law period in Taiwan, 19-year-old Chi-wei arrives in Taipei to study art in a college. However, it turns out that the Chairman of the department, Yung-shing, is a rather old-fashioned professor, who expects his students to appear and behave “properly”, which immediately brings Chi-wei into trouble, for her uncombed hair and “rough” demeanor. Even more so, Yung-shing influences all the teachers in the department, with the girl starting to receive failing grades from the get go. It seems,...
- 10/25/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
by Pawel Mizgalewicz
Director Lee Yi-Fang introduces her debut film as “not a typical Eastern-Asian movie”, but what could she be meaning? I assume she refers to the fact that the movie is mostly about sex. Yes, the subject is not really romance, not the building tension and longing and loneliness that hopefully explode in a passionate bedroom scene, or any other lofty theme like that. It's mostly about sex as a part of “normal” life – important, preferably enjoyable, but nothing that magical in itself. The pragmatical approach is indeed something that posits the movie as a piece quite unique, Eastern Asia or otherwise. This straightforward approach might resemble the recent Japanese “Hand”, for example – a film notably ironic as an official softcore-porn production that didn't seem to be that excited about sex itself. But unlike that one, “Little Blue” doesn't even contain nudity, and is generally much more female-targeted...
Director Lee Yi-Fang introduces her debut film as “not a typical Eastern-Asian movie”, but what could she be meaning? I assume she refers to the fact that the movie is mostly about sex. Yes, the subject is not really romance, not the building tension and longing and loneliness that hopefully explode in a passionate bedroom scene, or any other lofty theme like that. It's mostly about sex as a part of “normal” life – important, preferably enjoyable, but nothing that magical in itself. The pragmatical approach is indeed something that posits the movie as a piece quite unique, Eastern Asia or otherwise. This straightforward approach might resemble the recent Japanese “Hand”, for example – a film notably ironic as an official softcore-porn production that didn't seem to be that excited about sex itself. But unlike that one, “Little Blue” doesn't even contain nudity, and is generally much more female-targeted...
- 3/17/2023
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
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