Far from the closeted capital of Asian anomie so often portrayed in Taiwanese fest fare, Taipei becomes a warm, romantic city, peopled with enjoyable oddballs, in Boston-born American-Chinese Arvin ...

Au Revoir Taipei is a gorgeously shot piece of Taipei nightlife, a beautiful trifle fusing escapism and realism. Arvin Chen belongs to that rare breed of local filmmakers who manage to charm a sense ...

Kai (Jack Yao), who works at his parent's noodle shop by day and spends his nights in a bookstore to learn French, decides to go to Paris after his girlfriend, who recently left for Paris, dumps him ...

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