Murmur of Youth

Murmur of Youth (Chinese: 美麗在唱歌) is a 1997 Taiwanese coming-of-age film directed by Lin Cheng-sheng. Stars Rene Liu and Jing Tseng shared the Best Actress award at the 1997 Tokyo International Film Festival.^[1]

Murmur of Youth
Directed by	Lin Cheng-sheng
Written by	Lin Cheng-sheng So-ching Ko
Produced by	Hsu Li-kong Shun-Ching Chiu
Starring	Rene Liu Jing Tseng
Cinematography	Cheng-hui Tsai
Edited by	Hsiao-Tong Chen Li-Yu Chen
Music by	Bobby Chen Hong-Yee Chang
Release date	1997 (1997)
Running time	106 min.
Country	Taiwan
Languages	Min Nan, Mandarin Chinese

Plot

The film follows the parallel stories of Chen Mei-Li (Rene Liu), a middle-class suburban girl from a materialistic dysfunctional family, and the shyer, more introverted Ling Mei-li (Jing Tseng), a working-class girl being raised by her father and grandmother in a ramshackle home on the outskirts of town. The two meet when Ling, after dropping out of college when the boy she has a crush on begins dating another girl, takes a job at a local movie theater working the ticket booth with Chen. First bonding over their shared name, a close friendship slowly develops between them.^[2][3]

Cast

• Rene Liu as Mei-li Chen
• Jing Tseng as Mei-li Ling
• Chin-Hsin Tsai as Chen's father
• Hsiu Li as Chen's mother
• Grandma Pi as Grandma
• Pi-tung Lien as Lin's dad
• Shih-Hsine Wang as Baker
• Vicky Wei as Fen baker's girlfriend
• Chao-jung Chen as Lin's schoolmate
• Jen-Feng Cheng as Chen's brother
• Chiung-hua Chen as Chen's sister-in-law

References

1. "Tokyo Film Festival Grand Prix - Best Actress Award - List of past winners". MTime. Archived from the original on 2020-07-12.
2. Holden, Stephen (1998-04-11). "'Murmur of Youth': Two Women Work at Dangerously Close Range". New York Times.
3. Cheshire, Godfrey (1997-06-01). "Murmur of Youth". Variety.

External links

• Murmur of Youth at IMDb
• Murmur of Youth at AllMovie