Le Moulin
Poetry, literature, painting and old film clips converge in this lyrical, unusually designed film essay about Le Moulin, the Taiwanese poets’ collective which protested in the 1930s against the cultural superiority of the Japanese occupier and the domination of realism in poetry.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Huang Ya-Li
Actors: Deven Ho, Even Shen, Ian Shen, Lee Ming-wei, Liang Chun-wen
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