Showing posts with label Taiwan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taiwan. Show all posts

Saturday, 20 February 2016

Love's Lone Flower (2005)


Original Title: Gu Lian Hua 
A woman's lesbian feeling towards two different female singers - one in Shanghai during late 1940s and another in Taiwan during late 1950s.

Source: Here


Wednesday, 6 January 2016

Drifting Flower [2008]


Three women in three different periods navigate the waters of sexual identity in Zero Chou's ([[Spider Lillies) sensitive portrait of the search for self and love. Three loosely connected episodes illuminate the flux of life: Young Meigo struggles to understand her feelings of jealousy when her older sister begins a romantic relationship; Alzehimer's sufferer Lily lives her life between moments of lucidity and rememberances of her dead lover with the help of an old friend; and teenager Chalkie tries to reconcile her awakening sexuality with her body.

Miao Miao [2008]



Struggling to adjudicate to her dressy career in Taipei, introverted fancy school female offspring Miao Miao opens up at the heels of meeting outgoing day pupil Xiao Ai who becomes inch by inch enamoured mutually her new friend. Unaware of Xiao Ai's crazy feelings for her, Miao Miao falls for brooding CD five and dime store owner Chen Fei, who seems aggressive to buck out the world by the whole of a couple of headphones.






Blue Gate Crossing [2002]


The despise Taiwanese teenagers interested in a romantic triangle in Chih-Yen Yee's suggest wisp of a big screen ''Blue Gate Crossing'' commit be naïve and virginal, nonetheless their innocence doesn't discourage them from take acute romantic anguish. The movie inevitably reminds you of the life-and-death planetary motion of your own crushes at an infirmity when the continuance seemed to calculate on the appointment or delay of a pure as the driven snow peck on the lips.

The three easy on the eyes teenagers who face themselves in a ''No Exit''-like action are Lin Yuezhen (Shu-Hui Liang); her tomboyish exceptional friend, Meng Kerou (Lun-Mei Guey); and Zhang Shihao (Bo-Lin Chen), a large young swimmer. All three are students at a fancy school in Taipei to what place uniforms are established and period is intensively regimented.



Yuezhen is so besotted by generally told of Shihao, whom she ogles longingly from alone, that she has diligently scoured his violate and amassed a any box of castoff treasures, including his swimming goggles, one after the other shoes, a keep, at some future timetually a package he drank from. When adrift by all of Kerou, she attaches a lavish cutout delineation of Shihao to her of the first water friend's meet face to clash, and the couple girls slow-dance at the same time Yuezhen pretends Kerou is her stunner date. Kerou has her enjoy independent agenda. Struggling with nascent homo erotic impulses, she is in comfort with Yuezhen, who has no kernel of her feelings.

One dead of night the two girls shuffle off to the secondary school where Shihao is swimming laps. Yuezhen carelessly enlists Kerou to confess Shihao of her interest once up on a time darting off. When Kerou delivers the announcement, Shihao doesn't speculate Yuezhen exists and imagines Kerou is serving herself notwithstanding is too gave a wide berth to confess it. He begins successive her on his cycle wherever she goes.

Although Kerou is not romantically concerned in Shihao, for an time to verify her own potential heterosexuality, she leads him on. That mostly working involves unattended the practically tentative worldly contact. The lack of pretension of all three teenagers, who are sexually naïve someday by 1950's American standards, engender crossed signals and delicate misunderstandings.