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The Personals is a taiwanais film of genre Drama directed by Chen Kuo-Fu with Rene Liu
The Personals (1998)
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Add to a movie listThe Personals (Chinese: 徵婚啟事; pinyin: Zheng hun qi shi) is a 1998 Taiwanese drama film directed by Chen Kuo-Fu. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
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Quoique fort jolie, Du Jia-zhen (Rene Liu ; Murmur of Youth), une ophtalmologiste, a passé une annonce matrimoniale. Depuis des mois, son amant, un homme marié, ne lui donne aucune nouvelle malgré les messages qu'elle laisse sur son répondeur. A son annonce, elle reçoit de nombreuses réponses d'hommes en manque d'amour. Elle en rencontre de trois à quatre par jour : du sans gêne au timide, du jeune au vieux, un instituteur, un ouvrier, un agent immobilier, un VRP, un artiste et même une photographe homosexuelle. Autant de portraits qui représentent les différentes couches sociales de Taïwan. Du Jia-zhen ponctue ses rencontres de confidences sur le répondeur de son amant.Actors
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