Millennium Mambo directed by Hsiao Hsien Hou will open the Mint Chinese Film Festival which will take place from February 1 – 4, 2024 at the Keswick Alhambra Cinema (Keswick, UK).

Millennium Mambo by Hsiao Hsien Hou – France, Taiwan | 2001 – 119 minutes

Vicky is a bar hostess. She’s been living with her boyfriend, quick-tempered Hao-Hao, for some time, but his manic jealousy has increasingly been getting on her nerves. He constantly checks up on her, even sniffing her when she comes home from work. Unable to take this anymore, she leaves him and moves in with Jack, a local gangster. As the world rings in a new millennium, she must decide whether to go back to Hao-Hao or make a fresh start with Jack. (Mint 2024)

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About the director:
Hou Hsiao-Hsien is a retired Mainland Chinese-born Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a leading figure in world cinema and Taiwan’s New Wave cinema movement. He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 for his film A City of Sadness (1989), and the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 for The Assassin (2015). Other highly regarded works of his include The Puppetmaster (1993) and Flowers of Shanghai (1998)

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