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The message of Old Fox, movie about social change in Taiwan after martial law, according to director Hsiao Ya-chuan

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The film tells the story of an 11-year-old boy, Liao Jie (Bai Run-yin), and his 38-year-old widowed father, Liao Tai-lai (Liu Kuan-ting), who works as a waiter and lives in poverty. Together they dream of buying their own place to live, but just as their wish seems within reach, house prices go up. Their landlord, … Read more

‘My hands are always dirty’: actress Karena Lam on her new pottery obsession, women in film, and why she won’t sing professionally again

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“During the pandemic, everything just stopped. I felt like when I wasn’t satisfied with the screenplays, when films couldn’t satisfy me creatively, I discovered pottery. So I’ve been really obsessed with it for the past four years.” Lam was immediately smitten by the malleable yet immutable quality of clay when she began playing with it. … Read more