Honey Pupu (Xiaoshi dakan)

A Great Day Films (in Taiwan) discharge of a Red-colored Society Films presentation. (Worldwide sales: Good Films Workshop, Taipei.) Created by Yeh Jufeng, Terrisa Chen, Wei Yingchuan. Directed by Chen Hung-I. Script, Chen, Monica & Shabelle, Lin Fujing.With: Tseng Peiyu, Chiu Shengyi, Lin Chenshi, Lin Posheng, Hsieh Hsinying, Bridget R. Dennison, Colorado T. Dennison, Lee Tachi. (Mandarin, British dialogue)A deliriously wild mixture of Web-based youth culture, fantasia and memory, Chen Hung-I's dreamy "Honey Pupu" may be the work of the strong voice bored with conventional narrative rules. The fundamental premise of the radio DJ coping with her missing b.f. spins off a curious universe of figures and side tales, resulting within the couple of recent films that grasps the web as a means of viewing the planet. Worthy of even wider fest play than it's received to date, the pic has cult potential among searchers of exotic contempo masterpieces. Vicky (Tseng Peiyu) is baffled to determine how her b.f., Dog (Lee Tachi), has apparently disappeared, with couple of, if any, clues regarding his location. Her reminiscences of lately discussing New Year's with him stirs her to think about that what's coming is "the entire year without him." Among Dog's favorite websites, Missing.com, may offer outside assistance. Run with a trio of psychologically volatile youthful people going through the nicknames of Cola (Chiu Shengyi), Money (Lin Chenshi) and Assassin (Lin Posheng), the website is festooned with messages like "Have confidence in the parallel world," positing alternate dimensions where lots of those who have disappeared may really be living. Whereas a far more standard management of these components may likely have led to an alternative of now-familiar styles within the romantic science-fiction subgenre, Chen's approach indicates a Wong Kar Wai film produced by a more youthful, more new-media-affected talent. Alternately fluid and jarring, consistently keeping audiences uncertain in regards to what they are viewing as well as where they're, the film plays around the paradox of youthful people enthusiastic about virtual and invisible mobile phone industry's, but always yanked back to this less-satisfying one. For those their supposed visions, Cola, Assassin and cash are progressively bogged lower with a love triangular that develops uglier as Cola helps Vicky. As is appropriate for his title, Assassin is vulnerable to borderline-violent responses and does not take too kindly to Cola's progresses Money, minimal perturbed from the three and also the one most willing to reside in as soon as. Chen's constant changes in character focus are simply enough to create "Honey Pupu" an extremely woozy experience, but less it manages to lose its central axis. Consequently, the film's final resolutions are satisfyingly of the piece with Vicky's tries to understand herself better, even via a maze of barely understandable poetry, Web doodlings and wanderings via a slightly advanced-searching Taipei. Answer to the film's achievement is Fisher Yu's fantastic widescreen cinematography, which might be a phone card for bigger projects. The rainbow-like imagery, tonal changes and frequent alterations in location and mood perfectly fit the film's overall conception, along with Kang Chunwei's production design. Keeping everything in position are editors Chen, Liu Yuaxing and co-author Lin Fujing. Wu-wu Chang's resonant score features a surprising quantity of music cues, from Mozart to Berlioz.Camera (color/B&W, widescreen, HD), Fisher Yu editors, Chen, Liu Yuaxing, Lin music, Wu-wu Chang production designer, Kang Chunwei costume designers, Luke Huang, Liu Chiayu seem (Dolby Digital), Yang Chienan seem designer, Tu Duuchih re-recording mixer, Tu visual effects supervisor, Lien Chunchien visual effects, Dotodot Design Studio assistant director, Hah Chiachon casting, Wu Chenchen, Hsieh Peifen. Examined on DVD, La, November. 1, 2011. (In Vancouver, Hong Kong, PiFan film festivals.) Running time: 103 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com