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Sun.: at 2 p.m., Edward Yang's "Brighter Summer Day" (1991).
Representing the middle-class family living in Taipei through the transformation in-between two moviesdirected by Edward Yang:'A Brighter Summer Day'(1991)and 'AOne and A Two' (2000).
That Day, on the Beach (1983), Taipei Story (1985) and The Terroriser (1986) all won him critical admiration but his breakthrough came in 1991 with A Brighter Summer Day.
And the revival of the restored, complete version of Edward Yang's 1991 film A Brighter Summer Day was a deeply rewarding experience.
On the classic front, the UK branch of the Criterion Collection scores a real cinephile coup with a wonderfully restored rerelease of Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer Day (Sony, 15) – first released in 1991, hauled out only on special occasions since, and still among the most formally and emotionally expansive experiences in Chinese-language cinema.
He began filmmaking 20 years ago in Taiwan and has made six features, all elaborate social mosaics of life in Taiwan such as Taipei Story and the four-hour A Brighter Summer Day, ambitious, taxing movies in which I found more to respect than to enjoy.
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