Luna Monday Epic: Yi Yi

Luna Leederville, December 7

Edward Yang’s acclaimed Taiwanese masterpiece Yi Yi is a tender, expansive portrait of one family navigating love, work, marriage and mortality, offering a profound meditation on the beauty and bewilderment of everyday life.

Set in Taiwan, the film follows the lives of the Jian family from the alternating perspectives of the three main family members: father N.J. (Nien-Jen Wu), teenage daughter Ting-Ting (Elaine Jin) and young son Yang-Yang (Issei Ogata). N.J., disgruntled with his current job, attempts to court the favor of a prominent video game company while Ting-Ting and Yang-Yang contend with the various trials of youth, all while caring for N.J.'s mother-in-law, who lies in a coma. #13 on Letterboxd's Top 500 films.

Mandarin and Taiwanese with English subtitles.