Director Hsiao Ya-Chuan  蕭雅全 | 2000 | 75mins | UNCL 15+

Awards 獎項

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2001 Cannes International Film Festival - Directors' Fortnight

第54屆坎城影展 - 導演雙週 

2000 Taipei Film Festival - Best Film, Best New Director

第3屆台北電影節 - 最佳影片、最佳新導演獎 

2001 Torino Film Festival - Best First Feature

第19屆義大利都靈影展 - 最佳處女作 

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Could destiny literally in the palm of our hands? Hsiao’s playful debut film Mirror Image marked his arrival as a distinct voice in Taiwanese cinema and was featured at various international film festivals, including Cannes. It also won Best Film and Best New Director at Taipei Film Festival.

Tung-Ching, a pawn shop owner’s son, gets into a motorbike accident that scratched off his palm print. When his life takes a drastic turn, his girlfriend Eiko, a palm-reading enthusiast, is convinced that he needs to retrieve his palm print to take back control of his life. 

《命帶追逐》為導演蕭雅全首次跨足電影圈的長片作品，由侯孝賢監製，榮獲台北電影節百萬首獎的至高榮譽，更入選第54屆坎城影展導演雙週單元。當年猶如橫空出世，十八年後經典修復，再次證明作品經得起時間的洗禮。

因車禍失去掌紋的東清（李俊桀 飾），彷彿人生從此不再受限，卻因父親中風住院，東清必須掌管家業，成天跟女友（范筱梵 飾）受困在小當鋪，翻玩店內古物，研究客人掌紋，直到一名叫做「曉得了」的女子（王沛萁 飾）來到店裡......。

Filmmaker in Focus: Hsiao Ya-Chuan 焦點影人｜蕭雅全

Born in 1967, Hsiao Ya-Chuan began making short films at 21 years old, before entering the advertising industry. In the late eighties, he received a request to shoot a music video from fellow filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien (The Assassin, Millennium Mambo), leading to a life-long friendship. Hsiao served as Hou’s assistant director for Flowers of Shanghai (1998) and later directed his first feature, Mirror Image (2000). Mirror Image enjoyed a successful international festival tour, featuring at Cannes, Torino, Vancouver International Film Festival, and more.​

1967年出生於台灣彰化，1988年開始拍攝短片，隨後投身廣告圈並大放異彩。1998年擔綱侯孝賢導演《海上花》的副導，正式踏入電影圈，2000年首作《命帶追逐》文學性的敘事手法，以及對台灣的生動捕捉，入選坎城影展導演雙週，使之蜚聲國際。2010年《第三十六個故事》以台北咖啡館為背景，探討都會人士的心裡價值，獲得觀眾青睞，進而掀起一股咖啡熱潮。2018年《范保德》細膩刻畫三代父子關係，再度受到國內外影壇肯定。