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The Personals is a taiwanais film of genre Drama directed by Chen Kuo-Fu with Rene Liu

The Personals (1998)

The Personals
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Length 1h44
Directed by
OriginTaiwan
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Romance
Rating70% 3.535313.535313.535313.535313.53531

The 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.

Synopsis

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.
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Actors

Rene Liu

(Du Jia-zhen)
Chen Chao-jung

(Chen Wu-shiung)
Doze Niu

(Self)
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