The romantic dramas from Taiwan in the 1970s should be remembered as an integral chapter of the history of Chinese language cinema.
They were the by-products of the unique socio-political climate at the time, says screen icon Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia.“People thought that the films we made back then were bad.
But it was an important period of time from a historical perspective,” Lin told Variety.
Taiwan was under martial law and cinema censorship was tight.
“Romantic dramas became the most sought-after entertainment because of that.”Lin went on to star in Wong Kar-wai’s “Ashes of Time” and “Chungking Express,” but was away from the screen until recently.
In March, Lin was the focus of a retrospective at the Hong Kong Int’l Film Festival and this month at the Festival of Far East Film in Udine, Italy.Taiwan-born, Lin rose to stardom in 1973 when she was still a teenager with “Outside the Window,
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