Love Education

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Love Education
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Traditional 相愛相親
Simplified 相爱相亲
Mandarin Xiāng ài xiāng qīn
Directed by Sylvia Chang
Written bySylvia Chang
You Xiaoying
Produced byPatricia Cheng
StarringSylvia Chang
Tian Zhuangzhuang
Lang Yueting
Song Ningfeng
Wu Yanshu
Cinematography Mark Lee Ping-bing
Edited byMatthieu Laclau
Music byKay Huang
Production
companies
Beijing Hairun Pictures
Dream Creek Productions
Distributed byApplause Entertainment (Taiwan)
Release dates
  • October 21, 2017 (2017-10-21)(Busan)
  • November 3, 2017 (2017-11-03)(China)
  • November 17, 2017 (2017-11-17)(Taiwan)
Running time
120 minutes
CountriesChina
Taiwan
LanguageMandarin
Box office NT$5 million (Taiwan) [1] US$26 million(Mainland China) [2]

Love Education is a 2017 Chinese-Taiwanese drama film directed and co-written by Sylvia Chang. It stars Chang, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Lang Yueting, Song Ningfeng, and Wu Yanshu. It focuses on three generations of women in Henan Province. [3] [4] [5]

Contents

The film received critical acclaim, with many praising the screenplay and direction, as well as the performances of Wu, Tian, and Chang.

Plot

Love Education is a story of family and love, involving three women of different ages. Weiwei, nearly 30, has reached the age where she is able to marry. Her love life is in danger of her past, with her work causing troubles with her mother, Huiying, unable to understand it fully. Huiying is a middle-aged teacher who is about to retire, and takes on all arrangements after her mother's death, as she and her husband, Xiaoping, depend on each other but the couple suffer from emotional miscommunication. Nana, the 90-year-old grandma who has lived alone for decades, finds her life interrupted Huiying's sudden visit, and brings up the history of a bittersweet love affair. Through the three generations of women who share different views on life and love, they must find a way to connect as they meet together.

Cast

Production

The city and rural scenes were filmed in Zhengzhou and Luoyang, respectively. [6]

Awards and nominations

AwardCategoryRecipientsResultRef.
25th Beijing College Student Film Festival Best FilmLove EducationNominated [7]
Jury AwardNominated
Best Actor Tian Zhuangzhuang Nominated
Best Actress Wu Yanshu Nominated
Best ScreenplaySylvia Chang, You XiaoyingWon [8]
23rd Huading Awards Best DirectorSylvia ChangNominated [9]
Best ActressNominated
Best Supporting ActressLang YuetingNominated
9th China Film Director's Guild Awards Best FilmLove EquationNominated [10] [11]
Best Hong Kong/Taiwan DirectorSylvia ChangWon
Best ActorTian ZhuangzhuangNominated
Best ActressSylvia ChangNominated
Best ScreenwriterSylvia Chang, You XiaoyingWon
37th Hong Kong Film Awards Best Film Patricia ChengNominated [12] [13]
Best Director Sylvia ChangNominated
Best Screenplay Sylvia Chang, You XiaoyingWon
Best Actor Tian ZhuangzhuangNominated
Best Actress Sylvia ChangNominated
Best Supporting Actress Wu YanshuNominated
Best Cinematography Mark Lee Ping-bing Nominated
Best Original Film Score Kay HuangNominated
Best Original Film Song "Flowers in Blossom"
Composer: Kay Huang
Lyrics: Lam Kwun-fan
Performer: Sitar Tan
Nominated
12th Asian Film Awards Best Director Sylvia Chang Nominated [14] [15]
Best Actress Won
Best Supporting Actor Tian Zhuangzhuang Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Wu YanshuNominated
Best ScreenplaySylvia Chang, You XiaoyingNominated
54th Golden Horse Awards Best Feature Film Love EducationNominated [16]
Best Director Sylvia ChangNominated
Best Leading Actor Tian ZhuangzhuangNominated
Best Leading Actress Sylvia ChangNominated
Best Supporting Actress Wu YanshuNominated
Best Original Screenplay Sylvia Chang and You XiaoyingNominated
Best Original Film Song"Flowers in Blossom"
Composer: Kay Huang
Lyrics: Lam Kwun-fan
Performer: Sitar Tan
Nominated
Piaget AwardLove EducationWon [17]

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