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29 August 2007 |
Four Taiwanese films will be joining the race for the Golden Lion Award at the 64th Venice International Film Festival, which runs from 29 August to 8 September this year. Two Taiwanese directors, Ang Lee (李安) and Lee Kang-sheng (李康生) are among the promising hopefuls.
Ang Lee presents his latest film, Lust, Caution (色，戒), which illustrates a forbidden clandestine love affair between a female spy and a traitor to his own country during the Second World War.
Lee Kang-sheng's Help Me Eros (幫幫我，愛神) tells of rotting obsession in a love triangle - a hopeless drug addict, a warm-hearted lifeline volunteer worker, and a betel nut beauty.
The other two Taiwanese films showing at the festival are Most Distant Course (最遙遠的距離) directed by Lin Jing-jie (林靖傑) and Blood Brothers (天堂口) directed by Alexi Tan (陳奕利). Lin and Tan are hailed as two of the young up-and-coming directors of Taiwan cinema.
This year's Grand Award winner in the Taipei Film Festival, Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang (蔡明亮) said 27 August that the four nominees are equally-weighed in terms of marketing and taste –Ang Lee being the box office winner and young directors like Lee Kang-sheng representing the new-wave force in Asian cinema.
A total of 22 feature films will be contending for the Golden Lion in this year's festival, including nine English-language films from the US and the UK.
Translated by Yeh Fang-hsun
Source: CNA
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Last Updated ( 05 October 2007 )
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