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7:00 pm
Murmur of Youth
Director: Lin Cheng-Sheng, Taiwan, 1996, 35mm, 106 min.A lovely film of teenage girl bonding that grows into love, from the acclaimed director of A Drifting Life, Lin Cheng-sheng. Two girls, both of the same age, both named Mei-li, work at the same movie theater. Both Mei-leis are teen-age and hesitant, quietly unsteady and perhaps discontent. What releases them is an accident: they find themselves locked in a ticket booth, at the movie theater where they both work. They immediately bond and, to their confusion, they find themselves sharing something approaching love. This may be the only opportunity to catch the film as it is not commercially distributed in the U.S.
Winner: shared by Rene Liu and Tseng Tsing for Best Actress at Tokyo Film Festival 1997
9:00 pm
Vive l'Amour
Director: Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan, 1996, 35mm, 100 min.Three young strangers, two men and a woman, inadvertently share keys to the same near-vacant apartment in downtown Taipei. Director Tsai Ming-liang distills this farcical premise into an austere depiction of the insistent loneliness of urban life, where liberatory acts -- here, sneaking a kiss or rolling a melon bowling ball-like - are performed with great stealth, usually behind closed doors.
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