english title | Tonight Nobody Goes Home |
original title | 今天不回家 |
aka | Jin tian bu hui jia |
year | 1996 |
country | Taiwan |
genres | drama comedy |
duration | 121 mins |
A funny, light weight comedy from Sylvia Chang. We all know that yawning is contagious, but to the Chen family contagiousness extends to taking on an extra-marital affair. Lang Hisung plays old dentist for broad comedy (showing a different side from his starring roles in Ang Lee's films); he is sixty years old but still physically fit and full of charisma. He wants to be able to experience the vitality of a burning passion for one last once. Gua Ah-leh is at the movie's centre: she shines as Lung's wife, who finds she has a thing or two to learn from the gigolo after Lung blithely leaves her. The extra-familial affair is discovered...