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31 mag 2016 · An epic of the New Taiwan Cinema movement, director Edward Yang’s A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY is a sweeping story of teenage rebellion during a time of transition for a generation of Chinese refugees born in Taiwan after the Communist Party gained control of mainland China.
In A Brighter Summer Day, a significant fifteen-minute sequence on the tension between sound and silence, light and darkness is brimming with dramatic density and is pivotal for transformations that occur in the development of both the character and the narrative.
- Ling Zhang
A Brighter Summer Day is a 1991 Taiwanese epic teen crime drama film directed by Edward Yang, associated with the New Taiwanese Cinema. Its English title is derived from the lyrics of Elvis Presley's 1960 rendition of "Are You Lonesome Tonight?".
19 ott 2015 · La versione restaurata in 35mm di A Brighter Summer Day, il fluviale capolavoro di Edward Yang, è stata presentata alla decima Festa del Cinema di Roma.
The King of Rock and Roll’s tender ballad “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” becomes a central motif in the Taiwanese epic A Brighter Summer Day, bringing to the surface unresolved feelings about love, national identity, and lost innocence.
- Xiao Si’R
A Brighter Summer Day explores ramifications of modernity as a historical genre film. If it is a modernist film, and despite my critique of Chang’s labeling I will argue in favor of her attribution, it is modernism through the topic of history.
21 mar 2016 · This week, we’re proud to release our long-awaited 4K restoration of Edward Yang’s 1991 masterpiece A Brighter Summer Day. Long unavailable on home video in the United States, this incomparable work of Taiwanese cinema is now out on Blu-ray and DVD, restored to the stunning clarity of Yang’s original picture.
