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Sweet Degeneration (1997)

Sweet Degeneration (1997)

Drama
Release Date: 1997, January 1
Directors: Lin Cheng-sheng
Countries: Taiwan
Cast: Chen Shiang-Chyi, Leon Dai, Lee Kang-sheng, Chih-long Lin, Shih-huang Chen, Li-jung Lu, Chao-yin Hsiao, Tze-min Hsiao

Overview:

With a singular voice that distinguishes him from his New Taiwan Cinema contemporaries, Lin Cheng-sheng adds to his brief, but already remarkable, filmography with Sweet Degeneration, his third film in two years. As with A Drifting Life and Murmur of Youth, Lin’s new film delicately unfolds, gradually building to a climax of stunning emotional reverberations. Drawn from a particularly painful episode in the director’s past, Sweet Degeneration delves into the uneasy bonds a brother and sister have with each other and the people around them.