The Personals (1998)
- Original title
- 徵婚啓事
- Directed by
- Chen Kuo-Fu
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Taiwan
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 18 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A single career woman places a personal ad in the newspaper and meets a series of different men. She navigates each awkward date as she looks for love and connection in Taipei.
lightheartedwryepisodicintrospectiveobservationalbittersweetromanticunderstated
What happens
The Personals is a 1998 Taiwanese comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Chen Kuo-fu, based on Jade Y. Chen's 1992 novel of the same name. The film follows a career woman (Rene Liu) as she encounters a diverse bunch of men after placing a personal advertisement in the newspaper. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. Liu won Best Actress at the 1999 Asia-Pacific Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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