台湾映画『GF*BF』上映会

想いの深さだけ、僕たちは心に嘘をついた。

美宝（メイバオ）は忠良（チョンリャン）が好き。心仁（シンレン）は美宝に片想い。そして、忠良が好きなのは――。1985年から2012年までの激動の台湾社会を背景に、3人の男女の切ない愛と友情を描いた感動の青春映画。自由ではないものの情熱に満ちていた時代、その後民主化された台湾で、それぞれの関係に傷つき悩みながら年齢を重ねていく彼らが選択した幸せとは？

Director Yang Ya-che follows up his acclaimed debut Orz Boys with yet another look at growing up, the environments that shape young people’s fates, and the memories they end up taking with them. However, it seems Orz Boyswas just practice for the much more ambitious nostalgia trip GF*BF, which covers three decades in the lives of three pegs in a love triangle.

Beginning in high school, Mabel (Kwai Lun-mei), Liam (Joseph Chang), and Aaron (Rhydian Vaughn) see their adolescent antics turn into unrequitable love. Their passions come to a head as Taiwan’s democracy movement does, and as martial law is explosively lifted. It’s the rise of a whole new generation of Taiwanese, reared on graffiti and 80s rock.

Harkening back to Taiwanese cinema’s more fervent 90s, GF*BF wears politics on its sleeves and tears on its cheeks. Impassioned and romantic, Yang’s starry-eyed sophomore feature stands out amongst the year’s best for Taiwanese cinema.