Heartbreak Island

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Heartbreak Island
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Chinese 去年 冬天
Mandarin Qùnián Dōngtiān
LiterallyLast Year's Winter
Directed byHsu Hsiao-ming
Written by
Produced by
  • Grant Chang
  • Tommy Wang
Starring
CinematographyYang Wei-han
Edited byChen Bo-wen
Music by Chyi Chin & Red Band
Production
company
Scholar Films
Release date
1995
Running time
118 minutes
CountryTaiwan
LanguagesMandarin, Hokkien

Heartbreak Island is a 1995 Taiwanese drama film directed by Hsu Hsiao-ming. The film follows a recently released woman prisoner as she visits her ex who was arrested in the 1979 Kaohsiung Incident but released before her. The film makes extensive use of flashbacks to illustrate the woman's thoughts.

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Writing for The New York Times , Stephen Holden wrote: "The mood of Heartbreak Island is so glumly monochromatic that the characters remain at a chilly distance, and the movie remains locked in its own sealed-off sense of despair." [1]

Cast

Accolades

1995 Cannes Film Festival

1996 International Film Festival Rotterdam

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References

  1. Holden, Stephen (1996-03-23). "Film Review: Heartbreak Island". The New York Times .