Director:
Ang Lee
Script:
Wang Hui Ling
James Schamus
Ang Lee
Cinematographer:
Jong Lin
Editing:
Tim Squyres
Sound:
Alex Albanese
Music:
Eric Liljestrand
Sarah Plant
Cast:
Sihung Lung
Yu-Wen Wang
Chien-Lien Wu
Kuei-Mei Yang
Sylvia Chang
Production:
Ang Lee Productions
Central Motion Pictures
Good Machine
Distribution:
Carlotta Films
74 rue de Charenton
75012 Paris
tél : 01 42 24 10 86
[email protected]
www.carlottafilms.com
Year: 1994
DCP, Color, 124 min, OV mandarin SUBFR
Mr Chu is the best chef in Taipei. A widower for the last sixteen years, he is bringing up his three daughters on his own : Jen, a chemistry teacher who is extremely religious, Kien, a charming businesswoman who dreams of gaining her independence and Ning, a young student who works in a fast-food restaurant. The Chu family’s daily life is given a certain rhythm by these unchanging rituals which are the meals, prepared to the height of minute detail by the father. Not very talkative and closed in on himself, cooking is for him the only way he can communicate...
With ‘Sweet and Sour’, the last part of the trilogy about the family, Ang Lee for the first time films entirely in Taiwan, where he was born. Half way between a drama and a comedy, he treats with tenderness these characters who lack affection and whose relationships with others use food as a medium.
Sweet and Sour is an ode to Taiwanese culinary art where the scenes preparing meals show outstanding skill and have fascinated the greatest chefs all over the world.
