Murmur of Youth

Murmur of Youth (Chinese: 美麗在唱歌) is a 1997 Taiwanese coming of age film directed by Lin Cheng-sheng. Stars Rene Liu and Jing Tseng shared the Best Actress award at the 1997 Tokyo International Film Festival.[1]

Murmur of Youth
Directed byLin Cheng-sheng
Written byLin Cheng-sheng
So-ching Ko
Produced byHsu Li-kong
Shun-Ching Chiu
StarringRene Liu
Jing Tseng
CinematographyCheng-hui Tsai
Edited byHsiao-Tong Chen
Li-Yu Chen
Music byBobby Chen
Hong-Yee Chang
Release date
1997
Running time
106 min.
CountryTaiwan
LanguagesMin Nan, Mandarin Chinese

Plot

The film follows the parallel stories of Chen Mei-Li (Rene Liu), a middle class suburban girl from a materialistic dysfunctional family, and the shyer, more introverted Ling Mei-li (Jing Tseng), a working-class girl being raised by her father and grandmother in a ramshackle home on the outskirts of town. The two meet when Ling, after dropping out of college when the boy she has a crush on begins dating another girl, takes a job at a local movie theater where she works the ticket booth with Chen. First bonding over their shared name, a close friendship slowly develops between them.[2][3]

Cast
  • Rene Liu as Mei-li Chen
  • Jing Tseng as Mei-li Ling
  • Chin-Hsin Tsai as Chen's father
  • Hsiu Li as Chen's mother
  • Grandma Pi as Grandma
  • Pi-tung Lien as Lin's dad
  • Shih-Hsine Wang as Baker
  • Vicky Wei as Fen baker's girlfriend
  • Chao-jung Chen as Lin's schoolmate
  • Jen-Feng Cheng as Chen's brother
  • Chiung-hua Chen as Chen's sister-in-law

References
  1. "东京国际电影节 Tokyo International Film Festival". MTime.
  2. Holden, Stephen (1998-04-11). "'Murmur of Youth': Two Women Work at Dangerously Close Range". New York Times.
  3. Cheshire, Godfrey (1997-06-01). "Murmur of Youth". Variety.


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