A Brighter Summer Day | Screening at the NFSA
A teenager gets mixed up with a tough gang in Taipei in Edward Yang’s four-hour epic set against the backdrop of the families fleeing Mao’s China takeover in 1949. Billed as a Taiwanese Rebel Without a Cause, the struggles of adolescence play out against the upheavals of history. ‘It is a crowded, complex crime story […]