Zui yao yuan de ju li (2007)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Jing-Jie Lin

Writer:

Jing-Jie Lin (writer)

Release Date:

2 November 2007 (Taiwan)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Suicide | Taiwan | Music | Sadness | Taipei

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Tz-yi Mo	...	Xiaotang
Siao-guo Jia	...	Acai
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Lunmei Kwai	...	Xiaoyun

Also Known As:

The Most Distant Course (International: English title) (festival title)

Runtime:

110 min

Country:

Taiwan

Language:

Mandarin

Color:

Color

Certification:

Taiwan:PG-12 (original rating)

Filming Locations:

Taiwan

A low-key and sweet drama

This is one of those very slow and dreamy ones but the story is interesting enough to stay engaged and Lunmei Kwai (Blue Gate Crossing) is delightful. She receives cassette tapes of nature and community sounds from a guy, a professional sound-recordist, who thinks he is sending them to the girl who broke his heart. He is capturing sounds from all the places he had hoped to visit with her before she broke up with him. He meets up on his travels with a psychiatrist, played wonderfully by Siao-guo Jia, who is also suffering a broken heart and doing some soul searching of his own. Lunmei Kwai sets out to discover and visit all the places the sounds are coming from with the outside hope of maybe meeting the guy who is sending them. Very bittersweet ending that's neither happy nor sad but wide open to possibility.