Fine line

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Movie
Original title Fine line
Country of production Taiwan / USA
original language English
Publishing year 1984
length 43 minutes
Rod
Director Ang Lee
occupation

Fine Line is a 1984 Taiwanese - American short film directed by Ang Lee .

background

The film was made as Lee's thesis at the Tisch School of the Arts .

action

The drama tells the story of the young Chinese girl Piu Piu and the Italian predator Mario. The dialectic between Asian and Western culture also appears as a motif in Lee's later films.

Awards

In February 1985, the film was named Best Picture and Lee Best Director at the NYU Student Film Festival .

literature

  • Whitney Crothers Dilley: The Cinema of Ang Lee: The Other Side of the Screen , Columbia University Press, 2014