Roundtable Event: Contemporary Women’s Cinema in Taiwan
This roundtable focuses on Taiwan’s post-new wave cinema from a female / feminine perspective
29 June, 2021 1:31 pm
On Liang’s 18th birthday, she is unable to celebrate with her boyfriend because she has to babysit her irresponsible brother’s baby. Refusing to lose her adolescence through a responsibility that shouldn’t be hers, Liang sets out on a “mission to reclaim youth” as she tries to return this crying bundle of joy to her brother.
The director tells an extraordinary coming-of-age story with a unique feminine perspective.
Through the girl’s day-long journey with a baby, we follow a teenager who is left without choice and can only resort to her instincts to set things right when her family do her dirty. The film’s comic moments are richly-flavoured with Taiwanese local culture and campy humour, such as a granny sitting at a breakfast table who can only eat when someone brings her dentures. At the same time, through keen observation, the director vividly and earnestly portrays her characters.
