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Im Rahmen der Taiwankulturwoche zeigen wir den Film "GF*BF (Girlfriend Boyfriend)"

“Girlfriend Boyfriend,” the vivid second feature from the Taiwanese filmmaker Ya-Che Yang, views his country’s tumultuous political history through the maturing eyes of three childhood friends.

A brief present-day opening sets an enigmatic tone before the film flashes back to 1985, when Mabel (the delightful Gwei Lun-Mei), Liam (Joseph Chang) and Aaron (Rhydian Vaughan) are attending high school in southern Taiwan. Martial law is in effect, and the three chafe against the institution’s suffocating rules. Always the feisty ringleader, Mabel encourages Aaron’s natural rebelliousness and cajoles the quieter Liam into helping her sell banned literature in the marketplace.

But as the friends move on to college in Taipei and join the pro-democracy Wild Lily student movement, their feelings for one another eclipse outside concerns. And though Mr. Yang paints a colorful portrait of a country grappling with new freedoms, his real triumph is a moving and complex love triangle that will configure and reconfigure into adulthood.

And Ms. Gwei is a marvel: by turns brazen and uncertain, fragile and steely, she reminds us what it’s like to be young, in love and socially engaged at a time when everything matters, and little is understood.

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