Parking (2008 film)

Parking (Chinese: 停車; pinyin: Tíngchē) is a 2008 Taiwanese movie.

Synopsis

On Mother's Day in Taipei, Chen-Mo (Chang Chen) makes a dinner date with his wife (Gwei Lun-mei), hoping to improve their estranged relationship. While he is buying a cake on his way home, a car double-parks next to his, preventing his exit. For the entire night, Chen-Mo searches for the owner of the car and encounters a succession of strange events and eccentric characters: an old couple living with their precocious granddaughter who have lost their only son; a one-armed barbershop owner cooking fish-head soup; a mainland Chinese prostitute trying to escape her pimp’s cruel clutches; and a Hong-Kong tailor embroiled in debt and captured by underground loan sharks.

Cast

• Chang Chen as Chen Mo
• Gwei Lun-mei as Chen Mo's Wife
• Leon Dai as Pimp
• Chapman To as Tailor
• Jack Kao as Barber
• Peggy Tseng as Hooker
• Tou Chung-hua as Gang Leader
• Lai-Yin Yang
• Lin Kai-jung as Barber's Granddaughter
• Holger Chen as Gang Member

Festivals

• Cannes Film Festival 2008 – Un Certain Regard
• Montreal World Film Festival 2008
• Bangkok International Film Festival 2008
• Vancouver International Film Festival 2008
• Pusan International Film Festival 2008
• Hong Kong Asian Film Festival 2008
• Stockholm International Film Festival 2008
• Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2008
• Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2008 – Opening Film
• !f Istanbul International Independent Film Festival 2009
• Spokane International Film Festival 2009
• 2009 Adelaide Film Festival
• Osaka Asian Film Festival 2009
• Bradford International Film Festival 2009
• Taiwan London Cinefest 2009
• Barcelona Asian Film Festival
• Silk Screen Film Festival 2009
• Wisconsin Film Festival 2011

Award

• Golden Horse Award, Best Art Direction – FIPRESCI Critics Award: Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2008
• Best New Talent - Audience Favourite Film: Hong Kong Asian Film Festival 2008

See also

• List of films set around Mother's Day

References

External links

• Parking at IMDb
• Canadian Distributor : Evokative Films
• Variety
• Time Out Hong-Kong
• BC Magazine
• Twitchfilm
• Screen Daily