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“In short - or rather at mesmerizing, necessary length - this film has everything, and is well worth a day of your life.”
237 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Edward Yang. In Mandarin, Shanghainese, and Taiwanese with English subtitles. DCP.
Among the most praised and sought-after titles in all contemporary film, this singular masterpiece of Taiwanese cinema, directed by Edward Yang is finally available for US audiences. Set in the early sixties in Taiwan, A Brighter Summer Day is based on the true story of a crime that rocked the nation. A film of both sprawling scope and tender intimacy, this novelistic, patiently observed epic centers on the gradual, inexorable fall of a young teenager (Chen Chang, in his first role) from innocence to juvenile delinquency, and is set against a simmering backdrop of restless youth, rock and roll, and political turmoil.