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Actors: Chao-jung Chen, Kang-sheng Lee, Kuei-Mei Yang
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Vive L'Amour |
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This movie (Aiqing wansui) was co-written and directed by Ming-liang Tsai in 1994. It earned the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival that same year.
The setting is the city of Taipeh. Mei is an active young woman, working as a real estate agent in a world ruled by men. Her emotional life is limited to affairs with men she chooses and meets in one of the apartments that she proposes for sale. One of them, Hsia, steals the key of this apartment and decides to live there without Mei's knowledge. One evening, he meets in this apartment Ah-jung, a salesman, who also stole one of the keys of the flat and lives there since. Ah-jung is suicidal and solitary because of his repressed homosexuality. The two men become friends and successfully manage to hide their presence in the apartment to Mei who still does not suspect anything. Soon, Ah-Jung will dare to assume his sexuality by kissing Hsia while he sleeps.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Vive L'Amour |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- Two guys MAKING OUT (squish squish!)
Ethnic/Regional/Gender story?
Yes
Main Char. ethnic: (if not US Caucasian)
- Chinese
Story of city/rural life?
- Big City
Culture of surrounding area:
- Chinese
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- salesman
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
Body type
- (woman) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Chinese
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average build
Unclothed?
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Chinese
Main Adversary
Identity:
- none
Setting
Asia/Pacific/Middle East
Yes
Asian country:
- China
City?
Yes
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- thoughtful
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- seeing nude male butt
- sex under blankets
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- Chinese
Subtitles?
- Yes
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