Le Moulin 日曜日式散步者 |　

Taiwan / 2016 / Colour / 152 mins
Japanese with English subtitles
Dir. HUANG, Ya-li

As part of the Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh 2022 series of programs, we are delighted to introduce this screening and poetry discussion at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh.

In the early 20th century, Taiwan was rapidly developing into a modern state under the influence of Japanese colonial rule. It was against this backdrop that the country’s first modern art group – Le Moulin Poetry Society – arose in the 1930s, in protest against the colonial power’s assumed cultural superiority. Deeply rooted in a love for Western, and particular French Surrealist culture, the poets of Le Moulin wrote in an uncompromising and aesthetically sophisticated style to confront the turbulent era they lived in.

Le Moulin not only records a historical period that paved the way for a new freedom and self-awareness in East Asian cultures, but also to explore how Asian Modernist writers encountered foreign culture, contemplated identity, and reinvented Modernism to suit their unique political and cultural circumstances.

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