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Murmur of Youth
(Mei li zai chang ge)

Screening on Film
Directed by Lin Cheng-sheng.
With René Liu, Tseng Jing, Tsai Chin-hsin.
Taiwan, 1997, 35mm, color, 106 min.
Mandarin with English subtitles.

Two teenage girls from opposite sides of town work together as cashiers at a movie theater. One lives with her wealthy but distant parents in a Taipei high-rise while the other lives in an older rundown house where her grandmother provides moral support. They become close friends and eventually lovers, sharing intimate details about their lives that cannot be revealed to their respective families.

 

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