20th New York Asian Film Festival

Aug 6-22, 2021

Photo: ©Creamfilm Production

U.S. Continental Premiere

A Leg

In this deliciously dark comedy, a woman desperately attempts to reunite her husband’s amputated leg with his body before his funeral, leading her on a wild goose chase across Taipei and through multiple encounters with bureaucracy, ineptitude, and her own recent past. As she searches, she remembers. The couple met on the ballroom dance floor, married, and started their own studio. But before Zi-Han’s death, Yu-Ying (Gwei Lun-Mei of The Wild Goose Lake, demonstrating remarkable range) had been subjected to infidelity, gambling debts, and threats of violence. As the state of Zi-Han’s leg becomes an unexpected metaphor for the couple’s crumbling marriage, the film’s fractured chronology builds to a moving climax. A Leg is the masterful feature directorial debut of Chang Yaosheng, co-writer of the 2021 Oscar-shortlisted _A Sun _with its director, Chung Mong-hong. Chung produced and co-wrote A Leg,_ _and also contributed elegant camerawork.

Director: Chang Yao-sheng
Cast: Yo Yang, Gwei Lun-mei
Languages: Mandarin with English subtitles
2020; 115 min.

SCHEDULE:

Saturday August 14, 3:00pm
SVA Theatre

AVAILABLE: Aug 14, 3:00 PM - Aug 14, 4:55 PM

Sunday August 15, 6:00pm
Film at Lincoln Center's Virtual Cinema

AVAILABLE: Aug 15, 6:00 PM - Aug 20, 6:00 PM