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Gripping, funny, and socially relevant-The Great Buddha+ is worth a watch if you have any interest in Taiwanese society or cinema. Full Review | Aug 14, 2019.
This is apparent from the outset of The Great Buddha+, when Huang speaks to the audience as the credits roll, speaking harshly about the producers and delivering a personal statement. This anger remains throughout–a character named after the producer that Huang is particularly dissatisfied with is even killed off in a darkly humorous manner.
Oct 16, 2022 · Abstract. Based on his previous short film The Great Buddha (2014), Taiwan independent filmmaker Huang Hsin-yao’s first feature film The Great Buddha+ (2017) depicts the unbreakable gap of the ...
Best Film By An Emerging Director. Hsin-yao Huang. 2018 Winner CineVision Award - Honorable Mention. Hsin-yao Huang. "Our honorable mention goes to the wonderful Taiwanese film THE GREAT BUDDHA+ by director Hsin-Yao Huang, which uses whimsical imagery and superb comic dialogue to illustrate the lives of two naive underdogs who attempt to cope ...
May 9, 2018 · The Great Buddha+ (Film) The Great Buddha +. Director: Huang Hsin-yao. Year: 2017. Country: Taiwan. Why write about this film now? Taiwanese cinema has long been searching for the successors to the Taiwan New Cinema movement, to the likes of Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien or Tsai Ming-liang — in other words an independent Taiwanese cinema, with ...
Jan 4, 2019 · The Great Buddha+ 大佛普拉斯 won five awards at Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards last year, including best director and best adapted screenplay. In April, it won “Best Film from Mainland and Taiwan” at the Hong Kong Film Awards, and Taiwan submitted it as a candidate for the foreign-language category of the 2018 Oscars. Director Huang Hsin-yao's dark comedy about class, political ...
