TAKE ME TO THE MOON

帶我去月球

Directed by Hsieh Chun-yi

Asia Pop! / Taiwan / 2017 / fantasy, music, romantic comedy / 105 mins / Mandarin, Taiwanese with Chinese, English subtitles / DCP / North American Premiere

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TAKE ME TO THE MOON

UltraStar Mission Valley
Saturday, Apr 21, 2018 3:30PM

TAKE ME TO THE MOON

UltraStar Mission Valley
Monday, Apr 23, 2018 5:40PM

Description

ABC Award, 2018 Osaka Asian Film Festival

The time travel teen musical rom-com you’ve been waiting for is here. In 2017, a fateful encounter gives the dejected Cheng-hsiang the chance to go back in time twenty years, to when he and his high school compadres were in a rock band called Moon, graduation was imminent, and his lifelong crush Emma hadn’t yet gotten away. Cheng-hsiang has three days to relive his youth and re-route history to prevent the tragedies ahead that only he knows will befall his best friends.

TAKE ME TO THE MOON rollickingly looks back with peppy nostalgia but also bittersweet regret. Affectionate details, from 90s paraphernalia like Tamagotchis and Walkmans to the nervous smile you make when your hand is held for the first time, the film is an ode to those who remember high school with fondness but also with the nagging ache of knowing it could have been so much better if we had a second chance. For those who grew up in Taiwan in the late 90s, the film is also a loving tribute to Tom Chang Yu-sheng, the gifted pop star who died of a car accident in 1997, and whose songs give the film its title and its spirit of stunted adolescence, premature goodbyes, and the eternal power of shooting for the moon. –Brian Hu

Co-presented by: SDSU Vietnamese Student Association (VSA), SDSU Asian Pacific Student Alliance (APSA), Chinese School of San Diego, House of China, Taiwanese American Professionals