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An attractive and successful doctor places a personal ad in a newspaper to try to meet (and eventually marry) Mr. Right. A succession of blind dates ensues, featuring men who are lonely, desperate, dangerous and perverted.Read More »
Rene Liu
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Kuo-Fu Chen – Zheng hun qi shi AKA The Personals (1998)
1991-2000ComedyDramaKuo-Fu ChenTaiwan -
Cheng-sheng Lin – Mei li zai chang ge AKA Murmur Of Youth (1997)
1991-2000Cheng-sheng LinDramaQueer Cinema(s)Taiwan
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Recent Taiwanese cinema has almost had a monopoly on the kind of angst that permeated so many European art films of the 1960’s. The anomie that envelops Lin Cheng-sheng’s ”Murmur of Youth” in a mist of melancholy has everything to do with the collision of traditional and modern values in a boom economy. The film follows two college-age girls, both named Mei-li, from different backgrounds, who end up working side by side as ticket takers in a movie theater in a teeming shopping arcade.Read More »