Synopse
A long, decade-spanning panorama of the migrant experience of Vietnamese women in Taiwan. The 1990s saw a wave of emigration of women from Vietnam, who then married in neighbouring countries. They included Van Tue, who has been cut off from her home and robbed of her independence by her jealous husband and now plans to escape. Via formal breaks and shifts in perspective, the days before the turn of the millennium are unusually contrasted in the film with the changes which the migrant women have since managed to wring for themselves. At the same time, the film traces the history of a country that has always been under threat from its Chinese neighbour.
Regie
CHANG TENG-YUAN (*1987 in Taiwan) is a director whose short film Crossing the Sentimental Desert (2010) brought him to the world’s attention. Days Before the Millennium is his debut feature.
Info
Original Title: Pái Huái Nián Dài
Category: Feature
Section: Asia Express
Version & Subtitles: Taiwanese, Mandarin, Vietnamese OV with English subtitles
Director: Teng-Yuan CHANG
Cast/Protagonists: Annie Nguyen, Chen Shu-Fang, Nguyen Thu Hang, Steven Chiang Chang-Hui
Production country: Taiwan
Year of Production: 2021
Length: 148 min
Producer: Shih-Ken LIN, Lin Shih-Ken, Li Yuan
Production company: ALEPH TAIMAGES Ltd. (光元體影藝有限公司)
Editor: Chen Chun-Hung, Yang Kai-Yen
Costume Design: Emma Lin, Zoey Su
co-production company: OUTLAND Film Production (邊境映象藝文有限公司)
World Sales: ifilm Co., Ltd. (傳影互動股份有限公司)
