Taipei Story (1985) is playing in Belgian cinemas for the first time. Its restoration, an initiative of Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project, was completed in collaboration with Cinematek. It is an occasion for much joy.
Edward Yang’s second film sketches Taipei in that period, from sociological, architectural, and emotional perspectives. An unmarried couple live hopelessly side by side. He is devoted to the past, while she embraces the new age.
Yang explores the displeasure, alienation, and emptiness that result from the collision between the old world that was being abandoned and the brusque modernization and westernization. The discovery of the month.
Read more about: Brussel, Film, Taipei Story, Edward Yang
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