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International Film Club Screenings:Mini Chinese Film Festival: The Great Buddha (Huang Hsin-Yao 2017)

The Great Buddha (Huang Hsin-Yao 2017)

6 pm - Dinner and Reception
7 pm - Screening
A black comedy and dark social satire shot in black and white, Huang’s film deals with the most marginal people of Taiwanese society. A security guard and his buddy happen upon surveillance footage recorded by his boss’s in car camera and trouble lies ahead for both of them in what appears at first like a light hearted romp, the film also deals with the hypocrisy of Buddhism and charity in an increasingly unequal world.

Hosted by UC Irvine Film and Media Studies & UCI Illuminations