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Title: Splendid Float
Cast: Chan Yu Ming, Chung Yi Hing, Wang Xue Ren, Wang Ming Zhang, Ma Xu Hang, Lai Yu Qi
Director: Zero Chou
Writer: Zero Chou
Producer: Isaac Li, Hai-bou Zhen
Cinematographer: Yun-hou Liu
Genre: Drama, Romance, Boys Love
Year : 2004
Runtime: 71 min
Language: Mandarin
Country: Taiwan
Subtitles: English/Chinese
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436789/
Splendid Float is Zero Chou’s first film. It depicts the life of a group of Taiwanese transvestites in a travelling cabaret show. Roy (James Chen) dances and sings in drag (as “Rose”) in the show at night, while spending his day as a Taoist priest conducting funeral rites.
Zero Chou’s debut feature-length film, “Splendid Float,” won the best Taiwan film prize at the Golden Horse Awards in 2004. The film represents the gay dilemma in Taiwan via the absurd, and explores the possibility of reconciling the traditional and queer communities.
At one of the shows, Rose meets Ah Yang (here translated as Sunny), and the two fall in love almost immediately. However, the Rose and Sunny relationship seems to arise spontaneously, and while there are clear signs of affection, we’re left to fill in what exactly the couple sees in each other so much so that they talk about living together.
They make love with that certain urgency that in films tends to portend something tragic. And indeed, Sunny dies in a freak drowning accident, and the rest of the film is about Rose’s coming to terms with the death. When Rose’s ex-boyfriend Sunny drowns, he is asked by the family to perform the Taoist funeral rites to call the soul home.
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