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

Parking
Film poster
Traditional Chinese停車
Simplified Chinese停车
Hanyu PinyinTíngchē
Directed byChung Mong-Hong
Written byChung Mong-Hong
StarringChang Chen
Gwei Lun-mei
Leon Dai
Chapman To
Jack Kao
Peggy Tseng
Lin Kai-jung
CinematographyChung Mong-Hong
Edited byLo Shih-Jing
Music byAn Dong
Running time
106 minutes
CountryTaiwan
LanguageMandarin

Synopsis

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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

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Festivals

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  • 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

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