Yi Yi – A One and a Two

  • Wu Nien- jen: N. J.
  • Elaine Jin: Min -Min
  • Kelly Lee Ting -Ting
  • Jonathan Chang Yang- Yang
  • Issei Ogata: Ota
  • Chen Hsi- sheng: Ah - Di
  • Ko Su- yun: Sherry
  • Adriene Lin Li- Li
  • Tseng Hsin -yi: Yun- Yun
  • Hsiao Shu -shen Hsiao Yen

Yi Yi - A One and a Two (Chinese一一, Yi yi), also known under the reference Title One and Two, is a Taiwanese film from 2000 directed by Edward Yang, who also wrote the screenplay..

Action

Yi Yi is an almost three -hour movie about the life of middle-class family in Taipei Jian (Taiwan). It starts with a wedding and ends with a funeral. In between family life is presented from three different perspectives: from the father NJ ( Wu Nien- jen ), the youngest son of the Yang - Yang (Jonathan Chang), and the daughter Ting-Ting (Kelly Lee). The father is with his work and the desire of its business partners to conclude a contract with a well-known Japanese video game company, dissatisfied. His youngest son is at school a troublemaker, and his daughter is in the problems of a triangle. What's more, all three need to worry about the care of NJs law, who is in a coma since NJs wife had withdrawn from the family due to a midlife crisis.

Reviews

" Subtle developed family and time portrait everyday disasters with great composure confronts and its many actors from well tündér distance considered in their attempts to cope with the lucky and unlucky cases their existence. Both form and content brilliantly developed and directed masterfully. "

"Yi Yi is a seemingly staged film with a light hand painting designs with profound sense of humor a complex microcosm of life, and so man opens our eyes to what they themselves can not see. "

Awards

The film was awarded in 2000 at the International Film Festival in Cannes with the award for Best Director and was nominated for the Golden Palm. On the Festival international de films de Fribourg, he received the grand prize at the International Film Festival Karlovy Vary the Netpac price and at the Sarajevo Film Festival 2000 Jury Prize of the Panorama section.

At the award ceremony of the European Film Awards 2000, the film was nominated in the category of Best non - European film, but could not prevail against Wong Kar- Wai's In the Mood for Love itself. For the 2001 César Yi Yi was - A One and a Two nominated for best foreign film, but had to re- In the Mood for Love hit enter. In the same year the award of the Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma followed for best foreign film.

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