
A Brighter Summer Day
Sat
8
Sat 8 Nov 12:00 PM
Arc Cinema
Allocated Seating
Unclassified 15+
237 Mins November
1991| DCP | TWN | D: Edward Yang
Mandarin, English subtitles
A teenager gets mixed up with a tough gang in Taipei in Edward Yang’s four-hour epic set against the backdrop of the families fleeing Mao’s China takeover in 1949.
Billed as a Taiwanese Rebel Without a Cause, the struggles of adolescence play out against the upheavals of history.
‘It is a crowded, complex crime story that is also a tale of sexual awakening and an understated exercise in kitchen-sink realism. In short - or rather at mesmerizing, necessary length - this film has everything, and is well worth a day of your life.’ – The New York Times
Mandarin, English subtitles
A teenager gets mixed up with a tough gang in Taipei in Edward Yang’s four-hour epic set against the backdrop of the families fleeing Mao’s China takeover in 1949.
Billed as a Taiwanese Rebel Without a Cause, the struggles of adolescence play out against the upheavals of history.
‘It is a crowded, complex crime story that is also a tale of sexual awakening and an understated exercise in kitchen-sink realism. In short - or rather at mesmerizing, necessary length - this film has everything, and is well worth a day of your life.’ – The New York Times
November