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    Girl's School

    Mi Mi LEE 1982 Taiwan Feature color 91min Chinese DCP
    Chih-Ting and Chia-Lin, two students in Pingtung Girls’ Senior High School, are bosom friends. Their close friendship attracts jealousy from other classmates; thus rumors about them being lesbians spread. When this groundless rumor victimizes Chih-Ting and costs her best friend, it becomes too much to bear. In the 70s, the Taiwanese mainstream society regarded homosexuality as a negative variation of sexuality and imputed the cause of homosexuality to growing up in an unhealthy environment. However, the two protagonists’ friendship remains the heart of the story. Their unspoken emotional undercurrents are left for the audience to infer.

    Director

    Mi Mi LEE

    Born in Chaozhou, Pingtung in 1946, shortly after graduating from Shih Hsin University, Mi-Mi LEE joined the crew of The Story of a Deity (1969) as a script supervisor for Japanese director YAMANOUCHI Tetsuya, who she considered the first person to illuminate her path to filmmaking. She continued to work as a script supervisor on multiple films including Four Moods (1970), co-director by LEE Hsing. She was also the assistant director for directors PAN Lei and WANG Yu. Mi-Mi LEE made her first directorial film in 1972 with the Taiwanese-language film Pure Love and went on to direct and independently produce three feature films in the early 1980s, including Evening News, Unmarried Mothers, and Girls’ School dubbed as the “Taiwanese Urban Female Trilogy.” Her films have a distinctive auteur approach: simple yet bold composition, smooth cutting, vivid female characters, and a story containing an idealistic vision of a “female utopia”. Throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s, she was the youngest female director in TTV at that time. She was one of the primary directors for primetime dramas produced by Taiwan’s three major television stations (TTV, CTV, CTS), making an early start in the industry as a professional television show director.

    Mi Mi LEE

    導演：李美彌

    出品人：李循文

    監製：李榮貴

    製片：李清富

    編劇：朱秀娟

    攝影：陳清渠

    作曲：侯德健、陳信義

    剪接：林善良

    燈光：許木旺

    國家電影及視聽文化中心
    Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute
    service@tfai.org.tw

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