Yi Yi

aka: A One and a Two
Taiwan / Japan 1999, 173 minutes
Dir. Edward Yang
In Taiwanese with English subtitles
Rating: [M]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Drama

Feat. Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issey Ogata

Aroview: Masterful cinema - a drama that loosely surveys a middle-class family in contemporary Taipei, encompassing a wealth of human observation across three generations.

With novelistic delicacy and complexity, characters intertwine with their personal and professional doubts, others are overcome by illness and, most memorably, a young boy embarks on a photographic quest to show the "half of things that people don't see" - a metaphor for the film itself. Photographed with subtle grace and an eye for the unforgiving urban surfaces of the modern metropolis.

NZ International Film Festival 2002
Adopt-a-Movie Kindly Adopted by Cameron Fleming

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4 stars (Very Good) Chronicles the life of a large Taiwanese family - begins with a wedding, a birth in the middle & ends with a funeral. Then there's Yang Yang, the little boy of the family who's able to expose the nature of truth & exploration in a way only a child could ~GenXGirl