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Bookmark this pageMurmur of Youth (1997)
Director: Lin Cheng-Sheng
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From Time Out Film Guide
Two girls, coincidentally both named Meili, work side-by-side in a movie theatre box office and have a brief romantic fling - which means more to one of them than the other. Director/co-writer Lin Cheng-Sheng (A Drifting Life) takes his time getting them to this point; he spends more than an hour contrasting their home lives (one is from a middle-class family and gets no emotional support from her parents, the other is from an impoverished working-class family with a senile grandmother who was once a prostitute), turning the film into a meditation on changing values and morals in the ever-more-urbanised 1990s. Cool, calm and very assured.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Lin Cheng-Sheng
Producer: Hsu Li-kong, Chiu Shun-Ching
Cast: Renée Liu, Tseng Tsing, Tsai Chin-Hsin, Lin Hsui full cast
Duration: 105 mins
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