14th New York Asian Film Festival

Jun 26 - Jul 11, 2015

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U.S. Premiere

Meeting Dr. Sun

行動代號:孫中山

One of the best heist movies you’ll ever see, only this time it’s not about cool professionals pulling off one last job. Instead it’s a deadpan send-up of the genre about two rival gangs of high school students, desperate to pay their school fees, who simultaneously decide to steal their school’s statue of national hero, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, to sell for scrap metal. So stone-faced you almost don’t see the comedy coming until it’s too late, this movie specializes in the absurdity of kids driven to extremes, but what starts as schoolyard slapstick becomes an urgent call for Taiwan’s youth to stand up and fight.

Director: Yee Chih-yen
Cast: Bryan Chang, Joseph Chang, Matthew Wei, Zhan Huai-ting
Languages: Mandarin and Taiwanese with English subtitles
2014; 94 min.; DCP

SCHEDULE:

Tuesday June 30, 8:30pm
Film Society of Lincoln Center

Director Yee Chih-yen will attend the screening.

Yee Chih-yen
易智言

After graduating from Taiwan’s Cheng-chi University, Yee Chih-yen entered the UCLA’s film production program in theater arts. In a ten year period, Yee directed many TV dramas and made his movie debut with Lonely Hearts Club. In 2002, Blue Gate Crossing, his second film, entered Cannes' Director’s Fortnight and the Tokyo International Film Festival, and won the Best Director Award at the Bratislava International Film Festival. His reputation as a high school drama expert is further reinforced by his new film, heist comedy Meeting Dr. Sun (2014), which is showing at this year’s festival.