ODE TO TIME 四十年 (2016)

TAIWAN｜2016｜DOCUMENTARY｜120 min

DIRECTOR: HOU Chi-Jan

PRODUCER: Aileen LI

PRESENTED BY: The Chinese Music Man Association

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*Selected for 2017 Jecheon Intl Music & Film Festival 
*Selected for 29th the Asian Future Competition in the Tokyo International Film Festival 
*2017 Hong Kong Music Film Festival

 

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SYNOPSIS

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After four decades, a group of veteran singers gather together again. The songs they wrote when they were young had once changed the fate of the island. However, time took away their youth and changed the island’s soul. Not only a new national identity has formed but so many new music genres have emerged since then. Can the innocent songs they sang back in the old days still be related to the new era? Or could they speak for only the souls of a particular generation? 

 

On that memorable night in history, the veteran singers are re-united and sing those beautiful songs they wrote forty years ago. The unpredictability in life, the cruelty of fate and the complicated relations between Taiwan and China are gradually revealed in their singing. 

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一九七○年代，台灣掀起年輕人自己寫歌自己唱的「民歌」熱潮，當年的民歌手與歌，不只反映了當時社會的精神面貌，也描繪了某一個世代青年的面貌。四十年後，歌曲仍然傳唱，唱歌和聽歌的人經歷了四十年的光陰，都到了人生的下半場。一場四十年後重聚的演唱會，猶如降靈夜，召喚青春的記憶，與當下的生命對照、對話。不論是寶變為石的感概，還是歷久彌新的激情，都在一首首大合唱的民歌裡找到歸向。

 

本片以民歌四十周年演唱會為軸心，往外輻射民歌時代的代表人物們：楊弦、胡德夫、陶曉清、吳楚楚、楊祖珺、李建復、侯德健、李宗盛、邰肇玫……，此時此刻的生活實貌，以及對創作、對國族認同、對人生起落的所思所想。這是歌的故事，也是時間的故事。
 

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SALES CONTACT

Sin Wang

E-mail: ivymavis@gmail.com

Tel.: +886-2-7730-2648 ext.305

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