Help Me Eros
Bang bang wo ai shen
Taiwan
2007
103 Min
Color
1.66:1
Taiwanese
Synopsis
Ah Jie lost everything in the stock market due to a severe economic crisis. He now spends his days in his sealed apartment, smoking joints and looking after the marijuana plants that he secretly grows in his wardrobe. In desperation, he calls a suicide helpline and gets to know Chyi, whose sweet and gentle voice causes him to fall in love with his fantasized image of her. He tries to ask her out but is repeatedly rejected. He begins projecting his fantasy of Chyi on Shin, the new girl working at the betel nut stall downstairs. Shin is always sexily dressed in order to lure male customers. He becomes closer to her and soon the two of them sink into a world of erotic and psychedelic pleasures. At the same time, Ah Jie begins to stalk Chyi. An Official Selection at the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival, 2007
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Lee Kang-sheng
Lee Kang-sheng (b. 1968 in Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China) is a Taiwanese actor, film director and screenwriter. He has appeared in all the films of Tsai Ming-liang. His directorial efforts include Missing in 2003 and Help Me Eros in 2007.
Lee has received recognition for his acting, winning the Best Actor Award at the 2002 Cinemanila International Film Festival for What Time Is It There? He was nominated for a Golden Horse Award in 1994 for Vive L’Amour.
Lee won several awards with his directorial debut, The Missing. At the 2004 Rotterdam International Film Festival, he won the KNF Award, the NETPAC Award and the Tiger Award. The film also won the New Currents Award at the 2004 Pusan International Film Festival, a special mention at the Ljubljana International Film Festival and the City of Athens Award at the Athens International Film Festival.
His second directorial effort, Help Me Eros in 2007, was nominated… read more
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Monsieur Arkadin
6Jan13
I liked this. Though, I still can't decide weather it's a slightly trite Tsai knock-off, or an interesting divergence in a sort of mini cinema movement.
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Happy birthday, Al Pacino. He's 70 today, an occasion for a 60 Minutes sit-down with Katie Couric — and a few clips here. The Observer
IFFR 2008: HELP ME, EROS Review
By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
Actor / writer / director Lee Kang-Sheng must have mixed feelings about Rotterdam. His first movie “The Missing” won a Tiger Award in 2004, but when he went to the Cinemart part of the festival to try
IFFR 2008: HELP ME, EROS Review
By Twitchfilm.net on July 17, 2010
Actor / writer / director Lee Kang-Sheng must have mixed feelings about Rotterdam. His first movie “The Missing” won a Tiger Award in 2004, but when he went to the Cinemart part of the festival to try
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