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Hidden Whisper
New Current
Family · Love/Romance · Women · Psychology
- CountryTaiwan
- Production Year2000
- Running Time98 min
- Format35mm
- Colorcolor
Program Note
Everyone desires to change his or her reality. Director Vivian Chang presents such desire from a woman′s point-of-view in this film made up of three different episodes: a five year-old girl who begs in the street with her physically disabled father dreams of seeing her arguing parents joyfully dancing hand in hand; a seventeen year old who has stopped communicating with her mother dreams of escaping her reality by using someone else′s ID; and a thirty-year-old woman, having an affair with a married man, attempts reconciliation with her estranged mother. Their dreams and desires for change stem from their unstable relationships with their mothers, and moreover represent a desire to repair such relationships. Each in her own way long for maternal love, the most infinite means that constitute a mother and daughter relationship. If both the younger girls′ dreams are properties of their own, the woman′s is a relative one that makes human exchange possible. Thereby, the last scene, where the woman bathes with a child is the most manifest evidence of Vivian Chang′s goal of expressing hope through ′maternal love.′ (Kim Ji-Seok)
Director
Vivian Chang
Born in Taipei, Vivian Chang studied sociology first, but switched to films after she sought graduate study in the US. She has a degree in film production from Boston University. In 1996, she became an assistant director for Sylvia Chang on Tonight Nobody Goes Home and later worked on Tsai Ming-Liang‘s The Hole in 1998. Hidden Whisper is her first directorial debut.
Credit
- Director
Vivian Chang - ProducerChiu Shun-Ching
- CastHsiao Shu-Shen
Shu Qi
Elaine Jin
Leon Dai - ScreenplayVivian Chang
- CinematographyShen Rey-Yuan
- Production DesignLee Pao-Lin
- EditorChen Xiao-Dong
Lei Cheng-Ching - SoundYang Ching-An
- MusicMax Nagl
- Production CompanyCentral Motion Picture Corporation
- World SalesTaiwan Film Center
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