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Director Hsaio Ya-Chuan On Taiwan’s Oscar Entry ‘Old Fox’: “With This Movie I Can Plant Some Seeds” – Contenders International
Interview with 'Old Fox' director Hsaio Ya-Chuan about his family drama pic, which is Taiwan’s official entry for the Best International Feature film Oscar.
By chance, Liao Jie comes to befriend his neighborhood’s notorious landlord, Mr. Xie (Akio Chen), and the difference between the two men — one kind but poor, the other ruthless but rich — forces the youngster to wonder which might be the most effective role model. “The inspiration actually came from the questions that my kids asked me when they were about the same age as Liao Jie,” Hsaio at said Deadline’s Contenders International award-season event. Unusually for a film of this kind, Old Fox is subtle about the lessons that Liao Jie learns; Hsaio’s story is more concerned with the way the boy considers his options.
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