The Great Buddha +
New Directors/New Films 2018
March 28 - April 8, 2018
Huang Hsin-yao’s fiction feature debut is a stylish, rip-roaring satire on class and corruption in contemporary Taiwanese society about two provincial friends who idle away their nights in the security booth of a Buddha statue factory.
Q&As with Huang Hsin-yao
Provincial friends Pickle and Belly Button idle away their nights in the security booth of a Buddha statue factory, where Pickle works as a guard. One evening, when the TV is on the fritz, they put on video from the boss’s dashcam—only to discover illicit trysts and a mysterious act of violence. Expanded from a short, Huang Hsin-yao’s fiction feature debut The Great Buddha + (the plus sign cheekily nodding to the smartphone model) is a stylish, rip-roaring satire on class and corruption in contemporary Taiwanese society. A Cheng Cheng Films release.
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