The Personals

Fragmented, with those sit-com punches.

This show is filmed very artistically and based on simple, unique plot of a woman looking for marriage. In her search, several life questions about love and marriage get thrown up in a somewhat comedic light that makes your mind think.

a very well acted film starring rene liu and much more complex than the movie description and reviews admit. Comparison to Hal Hartley films are loose. While this film had flashes of comedy, it is better categorized as a drama.

Witty and subtle movie with lots of funny moments. In the same time, this is probably one of the saddest movies I've ever seen. Definitely worth watching.

the laughable perils of advertising in the personals for a husband. I wonder why & how she could stick with it for so long... and then it makes sense.

Rene Liu is fantastic in this humourous drama. well-acted, well-directed, well-scripted. also features the lovely cameo by Wu Bai...

第44屆亞太影展名單 最佳女演員：劉若英（「徵婚啟事」台北） 最佳劇本：陳國富（「徵婚啟事」台北）

Rene Liu is wonderful as a woman searching for her lost lover. She places an ad in the personals of a newspaper and goes on to meet a full spectrum of men. Here, we get a sense of the disconnectedness of contemporary Taiwanese society. Everyone wants someone who will love them unconditionally, but few can offer the very thing they long for. Great twist to end the film.

Watching the close-up of Rene for 1:44: Priceless

A woman decides that she wants to get married and places an add in the paper. In the course of her quest she meets every kind of blind date disaster of popular myth (any more besides). As the story unfolds, we see her repeatedly calling her ex-lover, who never seems to answer, telling him how deeply she still misses him. As perhaps isn't surprising for a Chinese film, this movie starts out with hilarious and irreverent wit and resolves with a profound somewhat melancholic finality.