Good Men, Good Women
Mar 27, 2015
(1995, 108 min, 35mm)
Please note screening locations!
Sunday, March 22 at at the Grand Illusion Cinema
Friday, March 27 at Northwest Film Forum with introduction by Sean Gilman
Steeped in the communist history of 1940s Taiwan, the sensitively interlaced stories of Good Men, Good Women unfold as a film-within-a-film. Liang Ching, an actress, gets ready to star in a World War 2 era film about Taiwanese Communists who threw themselves into the anti-Japanese resistance. But when stolen pages of her diary start surfacing, painful memories of a dead lover trigger flashbacks. Past and present start to bleed together as the plot of the film mixes with Liang’s own personal history.
“...[a] sinuous, meticulously constructed tableaux, which unfold hypnotically” —Richard Brody, The New Yorker
“Evokes a stunning emotional response... a rigorous work of art whose mysteries are worth unraveling.”—Caryn James, The New York Times.
- Read more about the emotional impact of Hou’s films in BOMB Magazine >
Please note screening locations!
Sunday, March 22 at at the Grand Illusion Cinema, 1403 Northeast 50th Street—Buy Advance Tickets >
Friday, March 27 at Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Avenue—Buy Advance Tickets >
- Part of our series Also Like Life: The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien—read more >