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"Yi Yi (A One and a Two)"
2000
Directed by Edward Yang

Edward Yang's profound and beautiful film conveys the powerful emotional truths of everyday life as it depicts the struggles, hopes and dreams of a middle-class family in Taipei. "...a wonderfully engrossing experience--a lucid, elegant, nuanced, humorous movie that's never nearly as sentimental as it might have been...Yang orchestrates a soap opera season's worth of family crises with virtuoso discretion" (J. Hoberman, The Village Voice). Yang won Best Director honors at the Cannes Film Festival and Yi Yi was named Best Film of 2000 by the National Society of Film Critics and Best Foreign Language Film by the New York Film Critics' Circle. Mandarin with English subtitles. Taiwan. 173 minutes.