Love Is a Gun (2023)

Original title

愛是一把槍

Directed by

Lee Hong-chi

Genre

drama

Country

Taiwan

Runtime

1h 21m

Rated

IIB

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man in coastal Taiwan struggles to escape his past as he gets pulled back into a world of petty crime and debt. The film follows his tense relationships with a former lover and a local gangster.

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What happens

Love Is a Gun (Chinese: 愛是一把槍, "Ai shi yi ba qiang") is a 2023 crime drama film co-written and directed by Lee Hong-chi in his directorial debut. A Taiwanese-Hong Kong co-production, the film premiered at the 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival, in the Venice International Critics' Week sidebar, where it was awarded the Lion of the Future Award for a Debut Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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