The Great Buddha +

大佛普拉斯

Taiwan’s Entry for Best Foreign-Language Film at the 91st OSCARS®

Director & Writer: HUANG, Hsin-Yao Cast: CHUANG, Cres / CHEN, Bamboo/ DAI, Leon

Underlining the gap between have-nots' lives and elites' world by switching between black and white and glamorous colors, THE GREAT BUDDHA+ vividly illustrates a corrupted village in rural southern Taiwan with memorable style, heartfelt empathy, and whimsical humor.  Security guard Pickle and his trash collector friend Belly Button kill time together in night shifts watching the American-educated boss's dash-cam recordings of his various sexual encounters with women. Against the buddies’ will, something horrifying rather than erotic reveals.

Humor, a perennial scarcity in the self-serious world of art-house cinema, is in pleasingly abundant supply in Taiwanese director Huang Hsin-yao’s The Great Buddha+
— Jordan Cronk, Film Comment

RECOGNITIONS

Winner, NETPAC, Toronto International Film Festival

5 wins, 10 nominations, Taiwan Golden Horse Awards

Palm Springs International Film Festival

New Directors New Films

Vancouver International Film Festival

5 wins including Best Picture, Taipei Film Awards

Hong Kong Film Awards

Asian Film Awards

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Bonus Features: THE GREAT BUDDHA Short Film | Making-Of | Trailer

精彩花絮:《大佛》短片 | 幕後故事 | 預告片

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Sporting an ingeniously cinematic concept that’s nimbly executed by writer-director Huang Hsin-yao and producer-DP Chung Mong-hong, this ballad of sad losers mixed with satire on parochial politics is convulsively funny yet uncompromisingly bleak, bridging art with entertainment..
— Maggie Lee, Variety
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...Viewers looking for renewed faith in the power, vision, and sheer fun of movies will love The Great Buddha +
— Ken Eisner, Georgia Straight
...the viewer is at once dismayed by the cruelty of this society & seduced by Mr. Huang’s smooth and witty style.
— A.O.Scott, New York Times

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The Great Buddha + elevates into becoming a poignant portrait of the human spirit.
— Kamran Ahmed, Next Projection
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...the most important film from Taiwan since Yi Yi (Edward Yang).
— — Look Chi Man, HK01
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THEATRICAL ENGAGEMENTS

7/1/2018 SEATTLE SIFF Cinema Uptown

9/20/2018 HALIFAX Atlantic International Film Festival

9/21/2018 WASHINGTON DC Freer and Sackler Galleries

10/31/2018 LOS ANGELES Asian World Film Festival

11/3,7/2018 ST. LOUIS International Film Festival

11/16, 17/2018 BLOOMINGTON Indiana University Cinema

11/16/2018 ATLANTA Plaza Theatre

11/23/2018 NEW YORK Cinema Village

11/26/2018 BOSTON Harvard Film Archive

11/26/2018 SAN FRANCISCO Marina Theatre

11/30/2018 LOS ANGELES Arena Cinelounge

12/28/2018-1/6/2019 BLOOMINGTON The Ryder

10/28/2019 BOULDER International Film Series UCB

2/20/2020 NEW HAVEN Yale University

5/15/2020 CHICAGO Asian Pop-up Cinema Rewind

4/19/2021 TACOMA Sister City International Film Festival

10/2021 BOSTON Taiwan Film Festival

1/26/2018  VANCOUVER Vancity Theater

1/26/2018  SAN FRANCISCO 4 Star Theater

2/6/2018    LOS ANGELES Acropolis Cinema

2/9/2018    CHICAGO Facets Cinémathèque

2/16/2018    SANTA FE Jean Cocteau Cinema

2/20/2018  ALBUQUERQUE Guild Cinema

2/25, 3/1 /2018 PORTLAND International Film Festival

3/2/2018     PITTSBURGH Regent Square

3/8,9,17/2018 HOUSTON The Museum of Fine Arts

3/14/2018  WINCHESTER Alamo Drafthouse Cinema

4/3, 4/2018 NEW YORK  New Directors New Films

4/5/2018   CHICAGO Asian Pop-up Cinema

4/20/2018 EAST LANSING Michigan State University

5/25/2018 NORMAL Normal Theater

6/2,3,5/2018 ANN ARBOR Cinetopia

6/15/2018 VICTORIA Cinecenta

6/17/2018 NEW YORK Syndicated

6/22/2018 VANCOUVER Vancouver International Film Centre