Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Sylvia Chang's Love Education (2017), which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from April 19 – May 18, 2019 in Mubi's Luminaries strand.Early into Sylvia Chang’s Love Education, a family of three from Zhengzhou stumbles upon a chastity arch. It’s a landmark that stands in strident contrast with the sprawling concrete beehives of the second-tier city they come from, a relic redolent of an altogether different time and space, where widows who remained faithful to their late husbands were praised for their loyalty and purity. Its exact purpose may be alien to millennial Weiwei (Lang Yueting), but resonates closely to her fifty-something mother, Huiying (Chang), who darts it a cold glance: “it means it’s tough to be a woman.” Should there be a tagline for the filmography Taiwanese singer-turned-actress-turned-director Sylvia Chang has crafted in...
- 4/19/2019
- MUBI
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