| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday, February 28, 2010 | 5:00PM - 6:45PM | External Event, Town Hall, Innis College at the University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Avenue (south of Bloor at St. George) |
**Tickets for all screenings including opening night can be purchased 30 minutes before start time at the venue box office.**
INTRODUCTION
Mr. Peter Kuplowsky (Toronto After Dark Film Festival)
Growing Up (1983)| Director Chen Kun-Hou | 100 min.
Among the first films to incite critical and commercial interest in the New Cinema movement, Chen Kun-Ho’s Growing Up nostalgically chronicles the trials of adolescence as experienced by young Xiao Bin (Nose Giu), a child of 1950s Taiwan. Living with his mother, newly married to an immigrant from Mainland China, Xiao Bin’s life is narrated by a classmate and neighbor, observing him from a distance. Youthful romance and juvenile delinquency abound in this charming family drama. But nuanced mediations on social issues are also rehearsed, including the growing Americanization of Taiwan and the tense relations between Mainland communities and native Taiwanese.
Growing Up established one of the New Cinema’s prolific filmmaking teams. Based on her novel, the film not only marked renowned author Chu T’ien-wen’s first foray into film, but also introduced her to Hou Hsiao-Hsien, who collaborated with her on the screenplay. The two of them would subsequently become an inseparable writing team.
The film would be director and cinematographer Chen Kun-Ho’s most successful film. An instrumental figure in the revival of Taiwanese cinema, his sophisticated treatment of space and time proved influential to the development of the New Cinema’s celebrated visual palette. A mentor to Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Chen Kun-Ho was the cinematographer of Hou’s early commercial films including Cute Girl (1980) and then rejoined him to shoot Hou’s New Cinema classic Summer at Grandpas (1984).
– Peter Kuplowsky
GROWING UP is distributed by University of Toronto Media Commons
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