I Can't Live Without You

Section: Competition
Directed by: Leon Dai


No puedo vivir sin ti
Taiwan, 2008

Dir.: Leon Dai
Scr.: Leon Dai, Chen Wen-pin
Phot.: Chang Hsiang-yu, Chou Yih-wen
Ed.: Leon Dai
Cast: Chen Wen-Pin, Chao Yo-Husuan, Lin Chih-Ju
Format: 35 mm
Black and white; 85 mins
Language: Fukienese, Mandarin voice, English subtitle, Hungarian voice over

Father lives as a tramp by the waterside. He does dangerous jobs. It's no life for a child, you would say, but he lives together with his young daughter. That all works out well, until the authorities find out and he has to fight for his fatherhood.

It's immediately obvious through the powerful black-and-white images of an industrial harbour landscape that Leon Dai did not want to make a common film. Yet the realistically told story is as sensitive and accessible as a melodrama. I can't live without you is based on a true story that caused quite a stir on Taiwan.

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