25 minutes of quiet devastation that'll wreck your whole weekend.
A-Yun, a middle-aged woman from Vietnam, remarries an old man in Taiwan, bringing along her little son from her first marriage. Devoted as she is to her new husband, she is not treated as a family member. In their suffocating marriage, there is no love, but rather daily routine. Repressed desire makes her turn to her stepchild, a considerate and amiable young man.
Acting
Chou Heng-Yin's restrained devastation in every frame
Direction
Chuang's suffocating close-ups that refuse to look away
Director
Yung-Hsiang Chuang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Taiwan's new wave examining Southeast Asian migrant marriages—A-Yun represents thousands of Vietnamese 'mail-order brides' invisible in Taiwanese cinema until recently.
Chuang shot this as his graduation film at 24, winning Golden Horse Best Short—a stunning debut that launched his feature career exploring female interiority.
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