The Taipei Representative Office in Hungary is pleased to announce that the Taiwan Movie Club of the Taiwan Alumni Association in Hungary will be screening three Taiwanese feature films at Toldi Mozi from November 23 to 25, 2015: Cape No. 7 (2008), Parking (2008) and Zone Pro Site: The Moveable Feast (2013). All movies have both English and Hungarian subtitles. Screenings start at 17:30 and are free of charge.
Toldi Mozi:1054 Budapest, Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út 36-38.
November 23
Cape No. 7 (2008)
Aga is a young man from Hengchun, Pingtung, the southernmost town on the island of Taiwan. After ten years of a lackluster rock-music career in Taipei, he gives up and returns home in fury and frustration. Tomoko, a Japanese fashion model working in Taiwan, is asked to put together the opening for an upcoming beach concert in Hengchun by using only local talents. However, it’s difficult to recruit band members in this tiny seaside town. Aga, now a reluctant postman, meets Tomoko and, during the process of forming a band and through the magic of seven undeliverable love letters, they become a pair of quarrelsome lovers. At last, they put together a local rock band and give a marvelous performance. They also find out the addressee of the seven love letters—an old lady separated from her Japanese lover 60 years ago when Taiwan was returned to the ROC in 1945.
November 24
Parking (2008)
On Mother’s Day in Taipei, Chen Mo makes a date for dinner with his wife, hoping to save their estranged relationship. While he was buying a cake on his way home, a car unexpectedly double parks next to his. For the entire night, he searches the floors of a nearby apartment building for the owner of the illegally parked car, and encounters a succession of strange events and eccentric characters: an old couple living with their precocious granddaughter who have lost their only son, a one-armed barbershop owner cooking fish head soup, a mainland Chinese prostitute trying to escape her pimp’s cruel clutches, and a Hong Kong tailor embroiled in debt and captured by underground loan sharks…
November 25
Zone Pro Site: The Moveable Feast (2013)
Wan is the daughter of a legendary pantoh (roadside banquet) chef known as Master Fly Spirit. In past decades, Master Fly Spirit and two other chefs, Master Ghost Head and Master Silly Mortal, dominated the catering industry in Taiwan. However, as the nation’s economy took off, people began holding banquets in restaurants and hotels, and the roadside banquet business fell on hard times. On his deathbed, Master Fly Spirit passes on his celebrated recipes to Wan, but she desperately wants to escape the catering business. However, when her attempts to pursue a modeling career land her in trouble, Wan returns home to rebuild her family business.
*Zone Pro Site means catering chef in Taiwanese.
