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Film Information

Love and Death in Montmartre / 2019 / 109 min

★Taiwan primiere
★Free online screening (registration required)
★Free online forum (registration required)
★Online screening dates: Nov 15th - Dec 7th, 2022

Synopsis :

Two decades after her suicide in Paris in 1995 at the age of 26, Taiwan's foundational lesbian novelist Qiu Miaojin has prevailed as a Sinophone LGBTQ icon, and an international literary discovery for her “thrillingly transgressive…masterwork.” (The New York Times). “This poetic, essayistic film documents the short life of [Qiu] in Taiwan and Paris, quoting her work and interviewing her associates, publishers, translators and teachers, including the charismatic Hélène Cixous and the feminist icon Eileen Myles. Qiu’s radical and sensuous prose“ draws us into her pain, her search for identity, and her love of life.” (Monika Treut) A Best Film nominee at the 2019 Hamburg International Queer Film Festival, Love and Death in Montmartre is a “moving…creative and elegant” (Jean-Michel Frodon) exploration of the life and death of a gay-rights “martyr” in Taiwan --which, in 2019, became the first place in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, 50 years after Stonewall.

About director :

Evans Yiu Shing Chan (www.evanschan.com) is a critic, playwright, librettist and an independent filmmaker, who, said British critic Tony Rayns, "has made a singular contribution to Hong Kong cinema and…a major contribution to the whole spectrum of contemporary film-making." Chan’s four narrative features and ten-plus documentaries include Journey to Beijing (1998), The Map of Sex and Love (2001),Sorceress of the New Piano (2004), Raise the Umbrellas (2016), and We Have Boots (2019). His directorial debut To Liv(e) (1991) was named by Time Out as one of the 100 Greatest Hong Kong Films.His docu-drama, Datong: The Great Society, received the 2011 Chinese-language Movie of the Year Award, presented by the maverick Southern Metropolitan Daily in China. Chan subsequently adapted his film into an opera libretto, Datong: The Chinese Utopia (2015), which was hailed as a “major new opera” by Bachtrack and toured London in July 2017.

Chan's award-winning films have been shown at the Berlin, Rotterdam, London, Moscow, Vancouver, San Francisco and Taiwan Golden Horse film festivals, among others. A critical anthology about his work, “Postcolonialism, Diaspora, and Alternative Histories: The Cinema of Evans Chan,” was published by the Hong Kong University Press in 2015. Evans Chan lives between Hong Kong and New York.

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