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ETERNAL SUMMER
Sheng Xia Guang Nian
Director: Leste Chan
Taiwan 2006/95 minutes/colour
In Mandarin with Indonesian Subtitles
Teenage friendship and true love are given a Taiwanese test in low key, but sure-footed. The friendship and love of its 3 main protagonists ("best friends" Jonathan, Shane, and Carrie, played by Kate Yeung who shines in limited screen time) in their youth, from age 11 in a school in rural Hualian in 1991 to age 18 to the college year in Taipei (2005), with all of their ensuing majesty, glory, anxiety, complicity, confusion, pang, angst, and a dreamy quality thrown in.
Awards/Festivals:
Best New Performer Golden Horse Film Festival
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