Zinnia Flower

Zinnia Flower

2DCS/ES
Director:TOM Lin
Cast:Karena LAM, SHIH Chin-Hang
Length:96 minutes
Genre:Drama

Taiwanese Film Festival

Director: TOM Lin  •  Cast: Karena LAM, SHIH Chin-Hang

Wei and his wife, a piano teacher, are expecting a baby in three months. In three months, Ming will be married to Yuo, a cook and the love of her life. Yet all this ended in a horrible car crash leaving Wei and Ming alone to face the world in emptiness.

Everything that was left behind seems unchanged, but is forever different. They choose different paths, different ways of mourning. Like two mice lost in a labyrinth, Wei runs around in circles, hitting walls, and still ends up where he began. Ming calmly and slowly creeps down a determined path, seemingly moving forward, but towards a fatal dead end. Days go on not feeling like days and the only thing that lets them know that time is still moving forward is the weekly seven-seventh ritual that they both go to up in a mountain temple. It is only there that their paths cross. In a crowd of hundreds of mourners, Wei and Ming notice each other and recognize the pain within the other.

Embarking on separate journeys, Wei decides to visit the homes of all this wife’s piano students, returning their tuition fees for the lessons that will never be taught. Ming decides to go to Okinawa, the honeymoon she and her fiancée will never go to together.

Length: 96 min

Year: 2015

Country of origin:

  • Taiwan

Taiwanese Film Festival

Director: TOM Lin  •  Cast: Karena LAM, SHIH Chin-Hang

Wei and his wife, a piano teacher, are expecting a baby in three months. In three months, Ming will be married to Yuo, a cook and the love of her life. Yet all this ended in a horrible car crash leaving Wei and Ming alone to face the world in emptiness.

Everything that was left behind seems unchanged, but is forever different. They choose different paths, different ways of mourning. Like two mice lost in a labyrinth, Wei runs around in circles, hitting walls, and still ends up where he began. Ming calmly and slowly creeps down a determined path, seemingly moving forward, but towards a fatal dead end. Days go on not feeling like days and the only thing that lets them know that time is still moving forward is the weekly seven-seventh ritual that they both go to up in a mountain temple. It is only there that their paths cross. In a crowd of hundreds of mourners, Wei and Ming notice each other and recognize the pain within the other.

Embarking on separate journeys, Wei decides to visit the homes of all this wife’s piano students, returning their tuition fees for the lessons that will never be taught. Ming decides to go to Okinawa, the honeymoon she and her fiancée will never go to together.

Year: 2015

Country of origin:

  • Taiwan