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Set in Taipei, the captivating, 156-minute story follows the aftermath of that initial machete madness. Not so much the lost hand – that’s gone, along with the meal – but the family of A-Ho (Wu Chien-ho). Radish (Liu Kuan-ting) and A-Ho were supposed to frighten their target; to A-Ho’s horror, Radish wielded his weapon, and they’re both locked up for years. The fallout extends to A-Ho’s pregnant girlfriend (Wen Chen-ling); his secretive brother, A-Hao (Greg Han Hsu); and his heartbroken parents (Samantha Ko, Chen Yi-wen). The father disowns A-Ho, even asking the judge, “I hope you put him away to teach him some discipline.” When A-Ho leaves the juvenile detention centre, he’s fundamentally changed, but so are the people he tries to make amends with. “(The slashed hand) shocks the audience in the very beginning, and the rest of the film shows the audience what a normal family life is like,” Chung says. “Many things in life originate from unknown violence and ac
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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
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Taipei, Jan. 19 (CNA) Taiwanese film A Sun (陽光普照), directed and co-written by Chung Mong-hong (鍾孟宏), has been named best foreign language feature of 2020 by the Houston Film Critics Society (HFCS).
The award comes one month after the movie, which tells of a family torn apart and forced to rebuild in the face of multiple setbacks, was placed on the list of best films of 2020 by the American weekly entertainment publication Variety.
The HFCS, a non-profit film critic organization, announced the winners of its annual film awards for 2020 virtually in Houston, Texas, on Monday.
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