Eighteen

DVD/BDORSSES15
Director:Ho Ping
Length:106 minutes
Genre:Drama

Eighteen

Shi ba; r. Ho Ping, 1993, OV (hakka/mandarín.) + AT + eST | Taiwanská sezóna; Ho Ping, 1993, versions: OR,SS,ES,

Taiwanese season | introduction: Kristina Aschenbrenner

Director: Ho Ping

A multi-lingual tour guide drives his wife and daughter to a desolate seashore town. From that moment on, he throws himself into gambling, tossing the dice with local residents all day. Sometimes he wins big, but sometimes he loses all. Feeling neglected and uncomfortable, his wife and daughter soon leave him. He stays and wanders in this fishing village and gradually immerses himself in the surroundings—a place rife with immoral vagabonds, outlaws, and weirdoes. The style of Ho Ping’s film is intensely impressive, dark, and grotesque. It combines the local concerns of the 1980s Taiwan New Cinema and the 1990s MTV style of Generation X, and somehow reminds of later Wong Kar Wai's films. The narrative is fragmentary, with reality, dreams, and fantasies interwoven, filled with subconscious and surreal colouring and distortions, the settings are always spectacular ruins, whether bleak towns or urban backstreets; characters are wanderers, losers, fugitives, and exiles—anti social nihilists and anarchists.

Length: 106 min

Year: 1993

Country of origin:

  • Taiwan

Language version:

OR - Original version
SS - Slovak subtitles
ES - English subtitles

Taiwanese season | introduction: Kristina Aschenbrenner

Director: Ho Ping

A multi-lingual tour guide drives his wife and daughter to a desolate seashore town. From that moment on, he throws himself into gambling, tossing the dice with local residents all day. Sometimes he wins big, but sometimes he loses all. Feeling neglected and uncomfortable, his wife and daughter soon leave him. He stays and wanders in this fishing village and gradually immerses himself in the surroundings—a place rife with immoral vagabonds, outlaws, and weirdoes. The style of Ho Ping’s film is intensely impressive, dark, and grotesque. It combines the local concerns of the 1980s Taiwan New Cinema and the 1990s MTV style of Generation X, and somehow reminds of later Wong Kar Wai's films. The narrative is fragmentary, with reality, dreams, and fantasies interwoven, filled with subconscious and surreal colouring and distortions, the settings are always spectacular ruins, whether bleak towns or urban backstreets; characters are wanderers, losers, fugitives, and exiles—anti social nihilists and anarchists.

Year: 1993

Country of origin:

  • Taiwan

Language version:

OR - Original version
SS - Slovak subtitles
ES - English subtitles