Film Forum

Taiwan, 1985
Directed by Chen Kun-ho
Written by Chu Tien-wen, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Ding Yah-ming, Hsu Shu-chen
Starring Sylvia Chang, Lee Tsung-sheng, Wu Nien-jen
Approx. 100 min. DCP Courtesy Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute.

Rarely screened outside of Taiwan, this brisk and biting romantic comedy reveals a lesser-known side of the New Taiwan Cinema with its humorously insightful and feminist critique of conformist culture. A declared favorite of its firebrand star, Sylvia Chang, MY FAVORITE SEASON tells the story of an independent career woman grappling with the complications spiraling from her pregnancy to a married man and her plan to find a surrogate husband. Co-written by Hou Hsiao-hsien and based on a novel by long-time Hou collaborator Chu T’ien-wen, MY FAVORITE SEASON is a unheralded classic by cinematographer-turned-director Chen Kun-ho whose work lensing Hou Hsiao-hsien’s first works clearly influenced the film’s poignantly evocative documentary-style scenes of Eighties Taipei.