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Chinese New Year: Apart Together
Sat 28 Jan
“An engaging chamber piece about autumnal romance, bittersweet memory and self-sacrifice.” The Times
In his follow-up to the Berlin Golden Bear winner Tuya's Marriage, director Wang Quan’an has fashioned a bittersweet late life romance, reuniting former lovers separated some fifty years earlier by the end of China’s civil war.
When a political thaw permits surviving veterans in Taiwan to return to Shanghai to visit their families, ex nationalist soldier Liu returns to his native city Shanghai to find the first love of his life, Qiao, who he left behind pregnant five decades earlier. In the meantime, Qiao has married and built a family, but Liu tracks her down and is determined to get the family’s approval to take her away with him. Made with support from the Chinese government, Apart Together marks a new frontier in representations of China’s history and its relationships with the outside world.
Winner – Best Screenplay, Berlin International Film Festival
Region: AsiaKey themes: conflict/reconciliation
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Sat 28 Jan, 18:00
Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BZ
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