The Human Comedy (2002)

Original title

人間喜劇

Directed by

Hung Hung

Genre

anthology film

Country

Taiwan

Runtime

1h 57m

Rating

8.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film draws from four ancient Chinese stories about filial piety and connects them to life in contemporary Taipei. A theater troupe performs a play by a late Taiwanese playwright, adding a layer of meta-commentary.

experimentaltheatricalurbanreflectivedisjointeddarkly comiccriticalearthy

What happens

《人間喜劇》（英語：The Human Comedy）是台灣導演鴻鴻所執導的第二部劇情長片，演員多來自小劇場演員，於2001年上映。電影援引了四段二十四孝的故事，並與台北當今社會做連結；劇中劇場所演出的表演為英年早逝的劇場工作者田啟元的作品〈白水〉。 該片獲得新台幣五百萬元輔導金補助，並參與了數個國際影展，獲選為法國維蘇影展開幕片，以及巴黎「台灣出品電影節」開幕片。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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