Blue Gate Crossing
(Lan se da men)
by Yee Chih-yen
Taiwan
Script: Yee Chih-yen
Cinematographer: Hsiang Chien
Editor: Liao Ching-son
Sound: Tu Duu-chih
Music: Chris Hou
Cast: Chen Bo-lin, Guey Lun-mei, Liang Shu-hui, Joanna Chou
Production: Arc Light Film
Distribution:
Pyramide Distribution
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75008 Paris
France
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Fax: 0033 1.40.20.02.21
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www.pyramidefilms.com
Year: 2002
35 mm, Colour, 84 min,
OV Mandarin with French Subtitles
Directors' Fortnight - Cannes Film Festival 2002
Bratislava Jury Prize
Seventeen-year-old college girl Kerou is a dreamer who has feelings of self-doubt and regrets the times of carefree childhood. Swimming champion Shihao is the idol of the college. Yuezhen is Kerou’s best friend, and like many other girls she is madly in love with him. As for Shihao, he feels attracted by Kerou whose behaviour intrigues him. One day, Kerou goes and meet him during his training, and decides to speak. Her revelation deeply moves him, and the two adolescents have a taste of adulthood pleasures. In his second feature film, Yee Chih-yeh focuses on middle class youth in big cities:
"They are rebel, naive; they look at things in a frontal way and act with impulsion, especially when it comes to love. I wanted to follow them in their search for oneself, particularly in their sexual incertitude; I had no intention to teach a lesson but only get close to them and show how young people live for the present.”»
