Program 50: Winds of September (Trailer)

WINDS OF SEPTEMBER (JIU JIANG FENG) - Program 50 - Wednesday, May 5, 2009 - 7:00 PM - Laemmle's Sunset 5 -

In the ninth lunar month, a lively breeze sweeps the streets of Hsinchu, a small town west of Taipei. It murmurs of change, pushing the future, urging the unknown, and shaking the foliage of an old tree under whose branches a group of adolescents meet. Headed by the charismatic, handsome heartthrob Yen, the high-school boys gather to read comics, talk about girls, discuss how to avoid being punished at school and generally strengthen the already solid bond of male complicity. Recording the months preceding the boys' graduation in 1997 with touching honesty, the story incorporates the first Taiwanese game-fixing baseball scandal of those years as a metaphor that contextualizes their loss of innocence. WINDS OF SEPTEMBER is the latest entry in the insular genre of Taiwanese youth movies. Borrowing light touches of realism from his homeland's New Wave, Lin translates autobiographical elements with unpretentious simplicity, crafting cinematic recollections into a clean vision and a fluidly moving narrative.

(Taiwan, 2008) Dir.: Tom Shu-Yu Lin
35mm, 105 min., Color, Narrative, in Mandarin w/ ES

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[WinterHalloweenRose]

OMG MY SCHOOL'S ALUMNI DIRECTED THIS!!!

[Klee15]

@smileyfacekiddie YesAsia sells a Region Free English subtitled version of it. It's the version that I own. The subtitles are good, but the extras are nonexistent. The only worthwihle extra is this trailer.

[smileyfacekiddie]

do you know where I can watch it with subs ?