Sweet Degeneration
(Fang lang)
by Lin Cheng-sheng
Taiwan
Script: Lin Cheng-sheng
Cinematographer: Tsai Cheng-hui
Editing: Chen Po-wen
Sound: Tang Shiang-chu
Art Director: Cheng Nien-chu
Music: Chang Hong-yee
Cast: Chen Shiang-chyi, Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shih-huang, Chang Pen-yu, Lin Chih-long
Production: Zoom Hunt IPC, NHK JPC
Distribution:
Connaissance du Cinéma
122 rue La Boétie
75008 Paris
France
Tel: 0033 1.43.59.01.01
Fax: 0033 1.43.59.64.41
Mail: [email protected]
Year: 1997
35 mm, Colour, 118 min,
OV Mandarin with French Subtitles
After completing his military service, Chun-sheng comes back to meet his father. He steals money to go to Taipei, and once there, confronts his loneliness from a hotel to another one, from a girl to another one, dreaming of becoming a great saxophonist. Since his youth, he has been attracted by his elder sister, but this is a secret, a feeling he keeps for himself. His sister also loves Chun-sheng. Insensible to her husband, she dreams, remembering her passion for her former lover Haï, reflecting upon her unhappy marriage and her attraction for her younger brother.
"I have put autobiographical elements in my films, not in order to identify the characters, but in order to allow the audience to be moved by feelings they may have had about life." Lin Cheng-sheng
This is a story of love, of desire…of a taboo love relationship between a brother and a sister.
