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January 03, 2009 - Hong Kong – Promotion activities for the movie “Parking” continues from Taiwan to Hong Kong with launching of the Hong Kong official website: www.ParkingMovie.asia. Other than movie trailers, the website also features Chang Chen (張震) and Kwai Lun-Mei (桂綸鎂) wallpapers and photos for download. Furthermore, you will find 2 different versions of collectible postcards of the movie at different Starbucks Coffee stores around Hong Kong. The movie trailer will also be featured on the large outdoor TV screen at Times Square. “Parking” will be officially released in theatres on January 8, 2009 at Broadway Cinematheque (Yau Ma Tei), AMC Festival Walk (Kowloon Tong) and The Grand Cinema.
After premiering in the prestigious “Un Certain Regard” at the 2008 Cannes International Film Festival , “Parking” was invited to numerous film festivals around the world. Director Chung Mong-Hong also went on to win the “Best New Talent” award at the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival (www.hkaff.asia) held in October, while the film itself was voted as the “Audience Favourite Film” at the festival. Thereupon, “Parking” was selected the opening film for the “Golden Horse International Film Festival” in Taiwan, and collected 2 awards at the “Golden Horse Awards”, including Best Art Direction and the FIPRESCI Critics Award. Director Wei Te-Sheng of “Cape No. 7” also gave his recommendation for the film in an earlier interview for a newspaper in Taiwan. Moreover, renowned director Wim Wenders highly praised the film’s cinematography & the detailed precision imagery.
“Parking” brought together solid talents from around Asia including Chang Chen, Kwai Lun-Mei, as well as Jack Kao of “A City of Sadness”, Leon Dai of “The Hospital”, Chapman To of “Isabella”, Too Zong-Hua of “Lust, Caution” and popular Taiwan model Peggy Tseng. With rich flavors of suspense, comedy, and melodrama, this movie interweaves themes of family, sex, and money to create a moving story.
The story is set in Taipei on Mother's Day. Chen-Mo (Chang Chen) makes a date for dinner with his wife (Kwai Lun-Mei), hoping to mend their estranged relationship. On his way home, he decided to stop by his wife’s favourite bakery to get a cake. With luck he finds a parking space. While buying the cake, however, another car double-parks next to his, blocking his way out. For the entire night, Chen-Mo searches different floors of a nearby apartment building for the owner of the illegally parked car, encountering a series of strange events and eccentric characters: an old couple who have lost their only son living with their precocious granddaughter, a one-armed barbershop owner cooking fish head soup (Jack Kao), a young China girl (Peggy Tseng) trying to escape her pimp's (Leon Dai) cruel clutches, and a tailor from Hong Kong (Chapman To) who is embroiled in debt and captured by underground loan sharks. How would Chen-Mo finally come out of this adventurous journey?
For more information please visit: http://www.ParkingMovie.asia
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