Prince of Tears
By Davor Mamuzic
Toronto International Film Festival 2009 in Review
Prince of Tears
This classic, true story is set in Taiwan during the 1950s which takes a journey of happiness in one light and bitter darkness in the next. This time period is known as the White Terror as Taiwan swept through its nation with the anti-communist campaign where people were inprisoned and some simply dissappeared without any trace.
The story follows a fighter pilot who served against the communist in the Mainland China who moves to the island of Taiwan with his wife Ping, and two daughters Li and Zhou. As this looks as a promising new life to his family; the darkness unveils onto them as Li and Zhou return home to find to house ransacked by military police and both parents inprisoned on suspicions they are communist spies.
Cinematography and costumes speak out and bring the White Terror
to a chilling and realistic horrors of the Taiwanese 50s through
a beautiful vision of Yonfan as he remembers it through his
childhood memories.
Trailer:
IMDB - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1498834/
Rating : 4 / 5
