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Wu Chien-ho in A Sun
Already streaming on Netflix, the director s vivid and novelistic crime drama has become a dark horse favorite in the best international film category among critics and tastemakers.
Taiwanese filmmaker Chung Mong-hong’s
A Sun takes the material of a young adult TV melodrama and infuses it with such patient artfulness that a masterfully crafted novel soon comes to feel like the form it most resembles.
The film explores the various personal and societal pressures a family of four endures after their youngest son is arrested for his part in a violent crime and sent to juvenile detention. The offender is the family s recidivist black sheep, perpetually living in the shadow of his overachieving older brother, who is their father s pride and bound for medical school. Shocking events eventually force a wrenching reevaluation of that hierarchy, but the film also achieves surprising moments of black comedy, while skillfully swerving in and out of the crime