FILM INFO
Original Title
弓蕉園的秘密
Year
2021
Film Status
EPs & Duration
90 MIN
Director
Zero CHOU
弓蕉園的秘密
2021
90 MIN
Zero CHOU
The Taiwanese movie Secrets of 1979 brings the audience back to the White Terror period in Taiwan. It is the secret story around political and homosexual taboos during the Formosa Island incident. In the summer of 1979, Bīng-kuan asked her college friend Shu-lan to help out on her family’s banana plantation. As time went by, the two girls secretly developed a romantic relationship, and later they even volunteered at the Formosa Magazine to promote freedom of expression. Yet, their budding romance was fated to be cut short, due in large part to the suppression of dissidents under martial law…
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