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“Woody Allen is probably my all-time favourite filmmaker…Very much in the Nolvadex In Liquid same way Woody Allen is obsessed with New York, I think I have Nolvadex In Liquid an obsession with Taipei.”
-filmmaker Arvin Chen
First-time director Arvin Chen’s fondness for Taiwan’s capital city is Nolvadex In Liquid matched only by his appreciation for the romance of cinema. Au Revoir Taipei, his film which closed off last week’s Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, is Nolvadex In Liquid his ode to both.
Following a young man named Kai (Jack Yao) on an all-night adventure through Taipei’s glowing night streets with a Nolvadex In Liquid cute bookstore clerk named Susie (singer Amber Kuo), Au Revoir Taipei is Nolvadex In Liquid a confectionery film. Light and sweet, the film paints Taipei in the Nolvadex In Liquid same charmed light as Godard does Paris in Band of Outsiders, where even gangsters can’t ruin the magic of a city made for dance numbers. Godard’s film is regarded as his most accessible — it’s an appropriate word to apply to Au Revoir Taipei as well. The film stands in almost direct opposition to Nolvadex In Liquid the popular Taiwanese films of the 80s and 90s that waded so heavily through realist structures and Nolvadex In Liquid lurched along at challengingly slow paces.
“We got a Nolvadex In Liquid lot of criticism I think from film scholars, who have a Nolvadex In Liquid more traditional idea of what ‘Taiwanese’ films are,” says Chen, who Nolvadex In Liquid grew up in San Francisco and studied film at the University of Southern California before moving to Nolvadex In Liquid Taipei to apprentice under the late Edward Yang (director of Yi Yi). “We did make a very stylized, magical-realist [version of] Taipei. But I think younger people don’t mind that, because they’re used to watching so many foreign films — and by ‘foreign films’ I mean Hollywood films — to them, it’s not as weird to see Taipei depicted in that way.”
Chen cites Woody Allen as his favourite director and likens his appreciation for Taipei to Allen’s for New York. “It’s very much his New York,” Chen says of Allen’s filmography. “And all my favourite directors, when Nolvadex In Liquid they make a film about a city, it’s their city. It’s not trying to be like a documentary.”
The idea of a city’s truth and its sublime subjectivity is woven into the film’s screenplay. Kai himself is obsessed with Paris — his girlfriend lives there, he spends his nights sitting on a Nolvadex In Liquid bookstore floor reading French language guides and fumbling his way through the Nolvadex In Liquid pronunciations. After his girlfriend breaks up with him, he’s convinced a Nolvadex In Liquid romantic drop-in visit to the City of Lights will magically solve his problems.
After meeting Susie and Nolvadex In Liquid having his travel plans derailed by a crew of would-be heavies, Kai spends a Nolvadex In Liquid night darting across the city and finding what he yearned for Nolvadex In Liquid in his own backyard: a cute pixie girl, a night of romance and Nolvadex In Liquid chance encounters, some delicious food.
The film floats by breezily, flashing its gorgeous postcard cinematography while being nudged along by a Nolvadex In Liquid delicate jazz soundtrack. The gangster subplot is never anything more than Nolvadex In Liquid an excuse to chase the characters into new situations in new parts of the Nolvadex In Liquid city, to pull back the curtain on Chen’s Taipei, and Nolvadex In Liquid eventually even the bad guys themselves hanker down to stuffing their faces and Nolvadex In Liquid chatting about love.
“In the end, all any guy cares about is dumplings and girls,” Chen jokes.
Au Revoir Taipei is Nolvadex In Liquid not only a new-generation take on what makes a Taiwanese film, it’s also a Nolvadex In Liquid refreshing call-back to the type of romance that audiences haven’t really seen since 2004′s Before Sunset (and not often enough even before that). Chen gets that romance isn’t just boy-meets-girl — it’s the magic in the air around any memorable flirtation; it’s in the Nolvadex In Liquid food you eat and encompasses every street you walk down. In that, it’s actually the rare film that, like Before Sunset, feels much too short. At only 85 minutes, like any other fleeting encounter, it’s over before you know what charmed you.
Au Revoir Taipei was screened at the 2010 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival.
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