Love Education 相爱相亲
Showtime: November 14, 2018 – 6:45PM
120 minutes
Director: Sylvia Chang
Writers: Sylvia Chang, Xiaoying You
Stars: Sylvia Chang, Zhuangzhuang Tian, Yueting Lang
Rating: Hong Kong:IIA, Singapore:PG, Taiwan:GP
Mandarin with English subtitles.
This recently released film has already won 7 awards including Best Director, Best Actress and Best Screenplay. Director and lead actor Sylvia Chang is lauded equally for her acting and filmmaking. Her career spans four decades and encompasses more than 100 movies.
What is love? Who gets to define it, and should it be a force of liberation or constraint? Sylvia Chang attempts to find out in looking at the complicated, unexpectedly interconnected romantic lives of three generations of women who discover that nothing and everything has changed in the decades that divide them.
While a bereaved daughter channels her own anxieties of impending mortality into a petty and hopeless quest to validate the true love history of her parents, a daughter battles an oddly familiar problem with her musician boyfriend, and an elderly village woman is forced to realise she wasted her life waiting for the return of a man who had so carelessly abandoned her.
Mediated by a culturally specific argument over burial rites, Love Education is a meditation on the demands and obligations of love, both familial and romantic, as they inevitably change and mature across the arc of lifetimes.
