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Bookmark this pageA Confucian Confusion (1994)
Director: Edward Yang
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From Time Out Film Guide
Yang's brilliantly achieved comedy follows a selection of modern urban types through two fraught days and nights rife with misunderstandings and cross-purposes. The specific focus is on Taipei now, a city torn between me-generation aspirations and age-old Chinese ideas of social conformity, but almost everything here could equally well take place in neo-conservative London: Yang's semi-affectionate caricatures of civil servants, business and PR people and the arts crowd are all too recognisable. The new streamlined version of the film is tighter and more provocative than that which baffled most of the comatose British press corps (TO excepted) at Cannes '94; the creative energies that fired A Brighter Summer Day are sparkier than ever.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Edward Yang
Producer: Yu Weiyen
Cast: Xianggi Chen, Shujun Ni, Weiming Wang, Bosen Wang full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 133 mins
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