American Girl (2021)

Original title

美國女孩

Directed by

Feng-I Fiona Roan

Genre

drama

Country

Taiwan

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

12

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 33 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young girl named Fen Liang moves back to Taiwan from the United States with her mother and sister. They are dealing with their mother's breast cancer diagnosis and the SARS outbreak at the same time.

bittersweetintimategentlenostalgicgroundedfamily-orientedreflectivehopeful

What happens

American Girl is a 2021 Taiwanese drama film directed as the debut feature by Fiona Roan Feng-i. It depicts the semi-autobiographical story of Fen Liang, who returns to Taiwan from the United States with her mother and younger sister after their mother is diagnosed with breast cancer, during the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak. The film is executive produced by acclaimed director Tom Shu-Yu Lin, and is now exclusively available in over 190 countries and territories on Netflix. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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