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

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)

Trailer

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