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- Program Title: the personals
- EASC Code: CP-06
- Series Title:
- Region/Country: Taiwan
- Language: Mandarin
- Subtitles: English
- Subject: Movie & TV Drama
- Program Type: Feature
- Media Type: DVD & VHS
- Director: Chen Kou-fu
- Producer: Hsu Li-kong
- Release Date: 1999
- Running Time: 104 min.
- Color or BW: Color
- Program Abstract: Wu, an attractive and successful ophthalmologist, places a personal ad in a newspaper to try and meet Mr. Right who she'll be able to marry. A succession of blind dates ensues, featuring men who are lonely, desperate, strange, perverted, or all of the above.
From a tight fisted businessman to a shy writer who brings his mother, to a shoe fetishist and a pimp looking for call girls, even a B-actor (in disguise) "doing research", Wu sees them all and patiently listens to their spiel. What they don't know is that Wu has a mysterious ex-lover who may (or may not) be the man she truly seeks.
Honored at the Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard), The Personals' Rene Liu gives a lustrous performance as Wu, the complicated and strong-willed woman navigating through a world of thwarted dreams and endless longing. - Data Entry Date: 5/20/2003
