XIX° Far East film Festival – The films chosen for us by Marina fearful: At Café 6

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Opear before Neal Taiwanese director Wu, from the novel by the same author. How strong can be a love was born between the classroom? Where he is capable of reaching true friendship? It may hang in history at the distance? These are all questions that the director here arises, telling the story of Guan Ming-lu, high school student in love with the beautiful Xin-rui. Between fights between classmates, trips and jokes between friends, the two finally get together. The things, But, They will make complicated when the two boys are going to attend different universities.
That this is the first film by Taiwanese director he will immediately guess. First of all, what distinguishes it is a particular freshness, a joy of life that permeates especially the first part of the film. This is the moment, often, assembly it seems to follow all of its rules, as if to follow the rhythm of a great music. Not by chance, indeed, it is the same music to be the protagonist in many sequences (interesting, about that, the scene of the brawl between boys, mounted in full at ralenty, with Johann Strauss notes in the background), standing as if to recall a video clip. In the second part of the film, But, things change radically: at the start, Now, expectations, do you travel, silences, disputes and misunderstandings. All told with a Mass in decidedly more classic scene: mounting linear, moderate use of music, edited directed and essential. Almost as if the adolescent freshness was gradually vanished. Not always Neal Wu can handle it properly this change of register. More than anything else quite hard to give the whole a certain, smoothly,. Same goes for the management of numerous flashbacks present: too many, too frequent, definitely excessive and sometimes misleading for a story that although starting well, as you get closer to the final it tends to be increasingly forced and fetched, up to even be too loaded. With so much useless

spiegone immediately after the end credits.
Nevertheless, as it has already been said, This feature Neal Wu from her some honesty and genuineness. It does not pretend to be more than it is and immediately first one senses the fact that the story is heard by the author to the end. Not to mention that, from time to time, There are quite a few very interesting moments - and extremely poetic - from a purely directorial point of view (the outing scene with high school classmates is an example, as well as the image of the best friend of the protagonist - now an adult – reminiscent of the past by the sea, dancing as they did both child). Anyway, an interesting task.marina fears

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