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Good Men, Good Women

1995 · 1h 48m Drama, History, Romance
Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien

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Intended as the concluding film in the trilogy on the modern history of Taiwan began with Beiqing Chengshi (1989), this film reveals the story through three levels: a film within a film as well as the past and present as linked by a young woman, Liang Ching. She is being persecuted by an anonymous man who calls her repeatedly but does not speak. He has stolen her diary and faxes her pages daily. Liang is also rehearsing for a new film that is due to go into production soon. The film, entitled Haonan Haonu, is about a couple Chiang Bi-yu and Chung Hao-tung who returns to China to participate in the anti-Japanese movement in China in the 1940s and are arrested as communists when they go back to Taiwan.

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Personal and historical memory intertwines with intimate and ideological passion in Hou's sinuous, meticulously constructed tableaux ...

Richard Brody, New Yorker

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