The Savage Land [原野]

Released: 1981 Viewed: March 2020 The Savage Land is a 1981 film by female director Ling Zi. It tells the story of escaped prisoner Hu Zi (Tiger) [Yang Zaibao] who has escaped from prison and returned to his home village to wreak vengeance on Jiao Yanwang, the landowner responsible for his incarceration (and apparently the…

A Sun [阳光普照 陽光普照]

Released: 2019  Viewed: March 2020 A Sun is a complex family drama in the great tradition of Taiwanese films like Edward Yang's Yi Yi. Driving school instructor Chen A-wen [Chen Yi-Wen) and his wife Qin [Samantha Ko] have two children, A-Hao [Xu Guang-Han] and A-Ho [Wu Chien-Ho]. However, A-wen only acknowledges the studious A-Hao and…

Send me to the clouds [送我上青云]

  Released: 2019 Viewed: February 2020 Dublin International Film Festival Shengnan [Yao Chen] is a 30 something investigative journalist who discovers she has ovarian cancer. Needing money for treatment, she reluctantly agrees to write the biography of an obnoxious entrepreneur’s father. Nominally, she begins a trip to Guizhou to interview the father but, in the…