Prince of Tears

For the Baxter Dury album, see Prince of Tears (album).

Prince of Tears
Directed byYonfan
Written byYonfan
Produced byFruit Chan
StarringFan Zhiwei
Océane Zhu
Joseph Chang
Terri Kwan
Li Po-husan
Tsai Pei-han
Kenneth Tsang
Narrated byYonfan
CinematographyChin Ting-chang
Edited byDerek Hui
Kwong Chi-leung
Music byYu Yat-yiu
Release date
  • 2009 (2009)
CountryTaiwan
LanguageMandarin

Prince of Tears (Chinese: 淚王子; pinyin: Lei Wangzi) is a 2009 Taiwanese historical drama film by Yonfan. It was nominated for the Golden Lion at the 66th Venice International Film Festival. It tells the story of a family embroiled in the tragic "White Terror" suppression of political dissidents that was wrought during the 1950s by the Kuomintang government (KMT) after their acquisition of Taiwan in the 1940s.[1]

The film was selected as the Hong Kong entry for the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film in 2009.[2]

Cast

Reception

The film received generally negative reviews from the press.

Hong Kong film critic Perry Lam writes in Muse Magazine, "Prince of Tears makes a strange movie-going experience for, despite all the pathos - two little girls lose their father, a loyal soldier loses his life and a happy family is torn apart - the story is aesthetically shaped and distanced by the pictorial verve of the director to be eye-pleasing at all times."[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Prince of Tears" Recalls White Terror
  2. ^ Hollywood Reporter Hong Kong, Taiwan make Oscar picks 8 September 2009. Retrieved 2011-10-15
  3. ^ Lam, Perry (October 2009). "Hollow man and useless beauty". Muse Magazine (33): 98.


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