Taipei Exchanges (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Hong Kong Version)
From Au Revoir Taipei to Taipei Exchanges, Taiwan’s capital is slowly becoming the hip place to be. Commissioned by Taipei’s tourism authority and executive produced by director Hou Hsiao Hsien, writer-director Xiao Ya Quan’s Taipei Exchanges is a contemporary fairy tale that reflects the charms of Taipei and its people, as well as the modern dilemma between ideals and reality. The film stars Guey Lun Mei (Secret) as a new caf owner whose sister (Zaizai Lin) turns her business into a bartering business for people to trade just about anything, including a series of stories told by a traveler played by Chang Han (God Man Dog). Leisurely paced and beautifully filmed, Taipei Exchanges also includes street interviews done on the streets of Taipei to emphasize the city as a major character of the film. Appropriately, the film was the winner of Best Music and the Audience Award at the 2010 Taipei Film Festival.
Doris (Guey Lun Mei) simply wanted to open a refined, stylish coffee shop in a bohemian Taipei neighborhood, but when she’s stuck with a load of useless gifts from the opening celebration, her younger sister Josie (Lin Zaizai) turns the caf into a burgeoning bartering business. There, even a soulful song (by Japanese singer Atari Kosuke in a cameo) is a tradable commodity. One day, a traveler (Chang Han) brings in 35 soaps from around the world with a story for each of them, awakening Doris’s imagination about the outside world that she has never seen..
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