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PARKING by Chung Mong-Hong, Taiwan, 2008, Dark comedy, 106 minutes
On Mother's Day in Taipei, Chen-Mo makes a dinner date with his wife, hoping to improve their estranged relationship. While buying a cake on his way home, a car double-parks next to his, preventing his exit. For the entire night, Chen-Mo searches the owner of the car and encounters a succession of strange events and eccentric characters: an old couple who has lost their only son, living with their precocious granddaughter; a one-armed barbershop owner cooking fish-head soup; a mainland Chinese prostitute trying to escape her pimp's cruel clutches; and a Hong-Kong tailor embroiled in debt and threatened by underground loan sharks. Combining the different flavours of drama, comedy, and noir film, PARKING interweaves stories to create a moving and darkly funny film, served up in a superb cinematography that will have you transfixed to the screen.
Starring Chang Chen, Lu-Mei Kwai, Leon Dai, Chapman To, Jack Kao and Peggy Tseng
Festivals: Un Certain Regard (Cannes Film Festival), Taipei Golden Horse Festival, Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, !ftanbul International Independent Film Festival, Bangkok International Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival,Pusan International Film Festival, Stockholm International Film Festival…
Awards: Best Art Direction, FIPRESCI Critics Awards, Golden Horse Festival / Best New Talent, Audience Awards, Hong Kong Asian Film Festival / Most Inspired Film Director Award, !ftanbul International Independent Film Festival
The DVD is Region 1, includes English and French subtitles. Recycled cardboard and plastic digipack, in compostable plastic wrapping.
PARKING by Chung Mong-Hong, Taiwan, 2008, Dark comedy, 106 minutes
On Mother's Day in Taipei, Chen-Mo makes a dinner date with his wife, hoping to improve their estranged relationship. While buying a cake on his way home, a car double-parks next to his, preventing his exit. For the entire night, Chen-Mo searches the owner of the car and encounters a succession of strange events and eccentric characters: an old couple who has lost their only son, living with their precocious granddaughter; a one-armed barbershop owner cooking fish-head soup; a mainland Chinese prostitute trying to escape her pimp's cruel clutches; and a Hong-Kong tailor embroiled in debt and threatened by underground loan sharks. Combining the different flavours of drama, comedy, and noir film, PARKING interweaves stories to create a moving and darkly funny film, served up in a superb cinematography that will have you transfixed to the screen.
Starring Chang Chen, Lu-Mei Kwai, Leon Dai, Chapman To, Jack Kao and Peggy Tseng
Festivals: Un Certain Regard (Cannes Film Festival), Taipei Golden Horse Festival, Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, !ftanbul International Independent Film Festival, Bangkok International Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival,Pusan International Film Festival, Stockholm International Film Festival…
Awards: Best Art Direction, FIPRESCI Critics Awards, Golden Horse Festival / Best New Talent, Audience Awards, Hong Kong Asian Film Festival / Most Inspired Film Director Award, !ftanbul International Independent Film Festival
The DVD is Region 1, includes English and French subtitles. Recycled cardboard and plastic digipack, in compostable plastic wrapping.
