Movie review: Love Without Clutching, Leave Without Guilt
There’s plenty of tears in this intimate, highly-emotional documentary about six female business owners on a street that’s not even shown on Google Maps. They all seem to harbor some past burden and the little shops seem to be their refuge, and director Yang Li-chou (楊力州) digs deep into their pain — but perhaps a bit too much as Love Without Clutching, Leave Without Guilt (愛別離苦) fixates on the sob factor and fails to tell a coherent story. The tale of Lingtan Street (菱潭街) in Taoyuan’s Longtan District (龍潭) mirrors that of countless once-derelict areas in Taiwan:...
Source: taipeitimes.com