Taiwanese film THE RECEPTIONIST at 2017 Edinburgh International Film Festival
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“INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE”
The Receptionist (Jie Xian Yuan) Directed by Jenny Lu
Unable to find a job, Tina (Teresa Daley), a Taiwanese recent graduate living in London, starts working in an illegal massage parlour as a receptionist. As she gradually comes to know the women in this most dysfunctional of artificial families, where sex lies at the core of everything, she sees how they struggle to find a way to make their lives work, with an undercurrent of violence and danger always lurking. Jenny Lu’s impressive UK/Taiwan co-production featured in EIFF’s inaugural Works in Progress strand last year.
Supported by Taiwan Academy Scotland and the University of Edinburgh