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CLOSING TIME

By Nicole VÖGELE

Documentary - Completed 2018

Mr. Kuo and his wife Mrs. Lin cook for the city’s sleepless. They work all night and sleep during the day, like many others in buzzing Taipei. Until one morning, riding back from the market, Mr. Kuo takes a different exit on the highway...

Festivals
& Awards

post doc porto 2018

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2018

Rencontre Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal (RIDM) 2018

Locarno Festival 2018

Locarno Special Jury Prize / Locarno Festival Scope Award

Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019

Vision

Goteborg IFF 2019

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- SWITZERLAND
- Languages
- TAIWANESE, CHINESE
- Duration
- 116 mn
- Director(s)
- Nicole VÖGELE
- Writer(s)
- Nicole VÖGELE
- Cast
- Chung-Shu KUO, Li-Jiao LIN
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-67B5-0000-D-0000-0000-Z
- Producer(s)
- Aline SCHMID (BEAUVOIR FILMS)
- Synopsis
- 3 am, Zhongzheng Road, Taipei. The traffic of a 24/7-society pulses through the metropolis in constant waves. Bordered by a multi-lane street with a big freeway towering above it, lies the night eatery «little plates with rice». Here Mr. Kuo and his wife Mrs. Lin cook for the city’s sleepless. They work at night and sleep through the days - trying to keep afloat. Their eatery is a pit stop, a place of refuge, a warm bowl of rice. For the taxi drivers, the shop owners, for the tattoo artist next door. For families and young lovers. For the street dog awaiting his owner’s return.
  One morning, riding back from the market, Mr. Kuo takes a different exit on the highway and journeys to the sea...
  «Closing time» is a cinematographic meditation on the in-between moments – a kaleidoscopic journey that relies on colours, sensations, animals, typhoons and a dark lilac sky – the materials of life. An attempt at capturing time, an exercise in seeing.

CLOSING TIME

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