<p><strong>“The subtlety of Yang and actress Sylvia Chang merge together to form an irresistible emotional force.” - Toronto International Film Festival</strong><br /><br />The award-winning debut feature of Australian cinematographer Christopher Doyle (<em>Invisible Waves</em>, MIFF 06), <em>That</em> <em>Day, On the Beach</em> is a potent comment on the position of women in contemporary Taiwanese society, and is considered instrumental in charting a new course for Taiwanese cinema. In this modernist story of flashbacks and flashforwards, he reunites two female friends after 13 years - one who yielded to parental pressure to break up her engagement, the other who chose to defy her family and wed for love.<br /><br />“Conceptually, <em>That Day, On the Beach</em> is a social story rather than a love story, in which I hoped to cover not only what happens to a married couple.” - Edward Yang<br />