A Journey in Spring. 2023. Directed by Wang Ping-Wen, Peng Tzu-Hui

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A Journey in Spring. 2023. Taiwan. Directed by Wang Ping-Wen, Peng Tzu-Hui. Courtesy the filmmakers

A Journey in Spring. 2023. Taiwan. Directed by Wang Ping-Wen, Peng Tzu-Hui. DCP. North American Premiere. In Taiwanese Hokkien and Mandarin; English subtitles. 90 min.

With their feature debut, filmmaking duo Wang Ping-Wen and Peng Tzu-Hu have composed a lyrical family vignette of quiet transcendence, poised on the cusp between past and future, city and countryside, life and death. Aging married couple Khim-Hok (Jason King) and Siu-Tuan (Yang Kuei-Mei) share a modest home perched high in the wooded hills outside Taipei, where they bicker, gripe, and commiserate, inhabiting the familiar rhythms of a well-trod daily routine—until a sudden death throws their world into a state of muted disarray and brings the abrupt return of their estranged son. Luminous Super 16mm photography and an intricately textured soundscape cast a mesmerizing, melancholic spell, giving way to a delicate, understated meditation on the before-and-after of loss, and the intractably lingering traces of love.

This film accompanies New Directors/New Films 2024.

Past events

Sun, Apr 14, 2024, 3:45 p.m.

Film at Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater
Sat, Apr 13, 2024, 3:45 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1

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