LE MOULIN

RI YAO RI SHI SAN BU ZHE

By Ya-Li HUANG

MUBI, INC - as DISTR VOD, World / BROAD

Documentary - Completed 2015


Festivals
& Awards

Copenhagen CPH PIX 2015
International main competition for DOX:AWARD
Rotterdam IFFR 2016
Bright Future Section
    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • TAIWAN
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE, MANDARIN
    • Duration
    • 162 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ya-Li HUANG
    • Synopsis
    • It was when Taiwan was in a stable period of cultural assimilation during the past forty years of Japanese colonial rule that the country's first modern art group – Le Moulin Poetry Society – arose in the 1930s, with their poetic protest against the colonial power's cultural superiority. The name reflected the group's orientation towards the West while especially strongly influenced by France. Regarding the Surrealists as their absolute role models, Le Moulin poets composed poetry in an uncompromising and aesthetically sophisticated style to confront the turbulent era they lived in.
      Le Moulin not only tries to record a historical period that paved the way for a new freedom and self-awareness, but also to explore how Asian Modernist writers reinvent Modernism through encountering foreign culture and their contemplation upon identities.