An acrylic painting on wood panel, titled 'About Love - Taipei', of a young woman struggling to assemble an oversizing bookshelf with a lit roman candle. Her left hand is covering her face from the flames of the fireworks.

About Love - Taipei

(2005, Yee Chin-yen)

“Taipei” is the second segment in the movie, About Love, which has three segments altogether; Tokyo and Shanghai being the other two. I think “Taipei” is the most honest of the segments about love out of all the rest so I focused on it here. The story involves a Taiwanese woman and her Japanese friend building a shelf late at night and having a major language miscommunication. The director for this segment also directed one of my favorite movies, Blue Gate Crossing. Love is always laced with confusion in these films so that tends to be his theme. Fun fact: the director is also a scorpio like me.


A screenshot from the film 'About Love' of A-su bending down to fix the massive bookshelf that is on her partment floor. An animated gif of a scene from the movie 'About Love' of A-su twirling as she walks away from the docks. A screenshot of Asu and a young man off-screen in a paintbrush fight. From the movie 'About Love'.

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