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1:00pm
Flower Floating in the Sea
Director: Yeung Fan, Hong Kong,1986
A young night club girl (Sylvia Chang) is accused of murder of her lover (Hok Gin San Ng). Her only supporter is the ma ma san (Yin Wai), the madam of the club. As the story unfolds, we see how the relationship and trust developed between the trainee (young girl) and the trainer (the madam), until the young man came into their lives and changed everything...
GLBT Youth Double Feature
3:00 pm
Swordsman II
Director: Ching Siu-Tong, Hong Kong, 1991, 35mm, 111 min.
In the wonderfully high-flying, rampantly ambiguous Swordsman II, Jet Li stars as Warrior Ling, the naive swordsman doing battle against, and falling in love with, the gender-bending Fong the Invincible, played in male/female incarnations by the truly amazing Brigitte Lin. Swordsman II is pure pleasure, full of wild plot twists, yes, but the passion on display is remarkable as it is both taken quite seriously and, as embodied by top HK stars, is positively swoony.
5:00 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
Opening Ceremony
7:00 pm
The River
Director: Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan, 1997, 35mm, 115 min.The new film from acclaimed Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang, the Second Wave director of Rebels of A Neon God and Vive l'Amour. In The River, he concentrates his unmoving camera on an uncommunicative family complicated by desire, unveiling a desolate urban loneliness among the high rises, these family members cut off from the world and each other. The mother, an elevator operator, courts an affair from a pornographer. The father furtively seeks sexual contact in gay saunas. The son is recovering from an undiagnosable physical malaise.
Winner: Special Jury Prize, Berlin Film Festival, 1997 This film is not commercially distributed in the U.S.
Co-sponsored by Lavender Bridge of Metropolitan State University
9:00 pm (tentative)
Intimates
Director: Jacob Cheung, Hong Kong, 1997, 35mm, 117 min.Director Jacob Cheung presents this period love story between two women played by Hong Kong favorites Charlie Yeung and Carina Lau. The deft mixture of past and present and the moving, unexpected trajectory of the narrative, endow this touching, artful melodrama with a resonant, poetic arch. Carina Lau was just nominated for Hong Kong Film Awards' Best Actress.
11:00 pm
The Lonely Hearts Club
Director: Yee Chih-Yen, Taiwan, 1995, 35mm, 113 min.Another tale of urban solitude and impossible connesctions from contemporary Taipei. This Chekhovian comedy portrays a woman seeking solace in her preoccupation with a young office boy. Yet unbeknowst to Chen, Lone aches for another boy.
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