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Daughter of the Nile

  • Film
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Time Out says

At first sight, you wouldn't clock this as a film from the director of A Summer at Grandpa's and The Time to Live and the Time to Die. But despite the shift from his usual rural settings to the extremely mean streets of present-day Taipei, this is another of Hou's haunting accounts of the joys and terrors of adolescence. The central character is a young woman struggling to keep her father and elder brother (cop and thief respectively) from each other's throats, while nursing a distant crush on one of her brother's friends, a too-pretty gigolo who gets into trouble when he starts dating a gangster's moll. The tangled relationships resolve themselves into a mesh of disappointments and frustrations, but despite the downbeat mood there are charming eruptions of humour, and the sheer eloquence of Hou's mellow visual style makes the film a lot more life-enhancing than most.
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Release Details

  • Duration:91 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Hou Xiaoxian
  • Screenwriter:Zhu Tianwen
  • Cast:
    • Yang Lin
    • Gao Jie
    • Yang Fan
    • Xin Shufen
    • Li Tianlu
    • Cui Fusheng
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