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Friday, May 3, 2024
7 PM (166 mins)
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BAMPFA
That Day, on the Beach
(Hai tan de yi tian)
New Digital Restoration
Sylvia Chang, Terry Hu, Hsu Ming, Lieh Lee,
A film of epic scope, That Day, on the Beach had an enormous impact in Taiwan. Its narrative scale, multiple intersecting stories, and self-reflexive mode marked the film as something entirely new for Chinese cinema. A focus on the emotional lives of two women, and their implicit rejection of patriarchal dominance, was considered taboo-breaking. In the framing story, Tan, a concert pianist living abroad, is contacted in Vienna by her old friend Lin (the superb Sylvia Chang), now a successful businesswoman, and the two get together to talk over old times. Seamless flashbacks reveal the histories of both friends. . . . Identity and values are the underlying themes, shifting in time as experience molds each woman in her journey of self-discovery. Cinematography by Christopher Doyle gives the film a dreamy beauty.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Edward Yang
- Wu Nien-Jen
Cinematographer
- Christopher Doyle
- Chang Hui-kung
Language
- Mandarin
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- DCP
- 166 mins
Source
- Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute
Permission
- Golden Princess
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