Taiwanese New Wave

In the eighties the gradual lifting of martial law allowed Taiwan to tell its recent history at last. Hou Hsiao-hsien films a family caught in the repression of 1947 in still, distant shots, where history is guessed off-screen. Edward Yang reconstructs a murder committed by a teenager in 1961 and makes it the portrait of a generation, Tsai Ming-liang films urban solitude almost without dialogue, Ang Lee gathers a family around the Sunday meals of a master cook who is losing his sense of taste.

works 5

• CinemaA City of Sadness悲情城市Hou Hsiao-hsien · 1989The first Taiwanese film to show the 1947 massacre and the beginnings of the White Terror.Cinema
• CinemaA Brighter Summer Day牯嶺街少年殺人事件Edward Yang · 1991A generation born of the exile of 1949 grows up under martial law, between the White Terror, neighbourhood gangs and American rock.Cinema
• CinemaVive L'Amour愛情萬歲Tsai Ming-liang · 1994In the Taipei of the 1990s, a city with a high rate of vacant housing after the property boom, three lonely people share an apartment that none of them occupies.Cinema
• CinemaEat Drink Man Woman飲食男女Ang Lee · 1994In the Taipei of the 1990s, three educated daughters want to leave home, and the Sunday meal remains the only place where the family talks to one another.Cinema
• CinemaSuper Citizen Ko超級大國民Wan Jen · 1995A former detainee of the anti-communist repression faces the emerging Taiwanese democracy of the 1990s.Cinema