Yi Yi

Yi Yi

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    Made in Taiwan
    A noisy wedding is soon overshadowed by a stroke suffered by the family matriarch, plunging her into a coma. The mother undergoes a breaking point and retreats to a mountain temple. The father leaves on a business trip to Japan, where he reunites with his first love and begins to wonder whether he could have lived a different life. The teenage daughter experiences the joys and pains of first love. Meanwhile, the youngest child embarks on a philosophical project: he photographs the backs of people’s heads to show them a part of reality they cannot see.
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    “When I first saw Yi Yi, I read a line about it that still describes the film better than anything else: it is one of those extremely rare works that contains an entire life. Everything that hurts, everything that brings joy, everything that draws us together, and everything that separates us into individuals. Yi Yi manages to capture not just a single feeling or state of being, but humanity itself and what it means to feel at all.” (Programme curator Vladas Rožėnas)
    Program(s)
    Made in Taiwan

    Awards

    • World Premiere
      Cannes Film Festival, Competition, 2000
    • Best Director
      Cannes Film Festival, 2000

    Credentials

    • Directing
      Edward Yang
    • The script
      Edward Yang
    • Plays
      Elaine Jin, Issei Ogata, Nien-Jen Wu, Kelly Lee, Jonathan Chang, Hsi-Sheng Chen, Su-Yun Ko, Chuan-cheng Tao, Shu-shen Hsiao, Meng-chin 'Adriene' Lin, Pang Chang Yu, Ru-Yun Tang, Shu-Yuan Hsu, Hsin-Yi Tseng, Yung-Feng Lee, Shi-hui Chin, Jie Wu, Kuo-Chih Shu
    • Assembly
      Po-Wen Chen
    • Camera
      Wei-Han Yang
    • Music
      Kaili Peng
    • Producing
      Shinya Kawai, Naoko Tsukeda, Osamu Kubota, Yu Wei-Yen
    • Translation
      Olegas Volkovas
    • Dialogues
      French, English, Taiwanese, Japanese, Chinese
    • Subtitles
      Lithuanian, English
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