20th New York Asian Film Festival

Aug 6-22, 2021

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East Coast Premiere

As We Like It

揭大歡喜

This novel take on the Shakespeare classic dynamically reimagines the story's gender-bending romance in the near future, with a clever conceit that should have the Bard dancing in his grave. Taipei locations are reinvented in a gloriously original avant-garde guerilla-theater style. Nonstop whimsical vignettes, not to mention a plethora of quirky characters. build an alternate universe that puts the so-called real world in illuminating perspective. A triumph for both queer and independent cinema, As We Like It’s gleeful pranskterism is fun and thought-provoking, organically creating a brilliant cause célèbre for Taiwan’s rainbow community.

Directors: Chen Hung-i, Muni Wei
Cast: Camille Chalons, Jo’elle Lu, Aggie Hsieh, Puff Kuo
Languages: Mandarin and Taiwanese with English subtitles
2020; 107 min.

SCHEDULE:

Tuesday August 17, 6:00pm
Film at Lincoln Center's Virtual Cinema

AVAILABLE: Aug 17, 6:00 PM - Aug 22, 6:00 PM