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 "excerpt": "Au Revoir Taipei (一頁台北) is a 2010 Taiwanese romantic comedy directed by Arvin Chen, starring Jack Yao and Amber Kuo. It follows one night in Taipei, won the NETPAC Award at Berlin 2010, and had Wim Wenders as executive producer.",
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 "markdown": "# Au Revoir Taipei\n\n**Au Revoir Taipei** (一頁台北, literally \"one page of Taipei\") is a 2010 Taiwanese romantic comedy directed and written by Arvin Chen (陳駿霖), in which a lovesick young man spends a single night chasing a package deal through Taipei and discovers that the romance he sought in Paris is already around him.<sup>[1](https://trigon-film.org/en/films/au-revoir-taipei-yi-ye-tai-bei/)</sup> The film won the NETPAC Award for Best Asian Film at the 2010 [Berlin International Film Festival](https://www.edgepedia.org/berlin-international-film-festival) and the Jury Award at the 2010 Deauville Asian Film Festival.<sup>[2](https://file.moc.gov.tw/001/Upload/OldFiles/AdminUploads/contenthistory/2010TaiwanCinemaPDFII.pdf)</sup>\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Original title | 一頁台北 (Yi ye Tai bei), a pun on \"page\" and \"night\" in Mandarin<sup>[3](https://www.scmp.com/article/722486/au-revoir-taipei?module=inline&pgtype=others)</sup> |\n| Director and writer | Arvin Chen, his feature debut after the short film MEI (2007)<sup>[1](https://trigon-film.org/en/films/au-revoir-taipei-yi-ye-tai-bei/)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[4](https://www.taiwanfilmfestival.org.au/2023-program/au-revoir-taipei)</sup> |\n| Runtime and format | 85 minutes, shot on 35mm<sup>[1](https://trigon-film.org/en/films/au-revoir-taipei-yi-ye-tai-bei/)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[2](https://file.moc.gov.tw/001/Upload/OldFiles/AdminUploads/contenthistory/2010TaiwanCinemaPDFII.pdf)</sup> |\n| Languages | Mandarin, Taiwanese (Hoklo), and French<sup>[5](https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2010/04/02/2003469519)</sup> |\n| Principal cast | Jack Yao (Kai), Amber Kuo (Susie), Joseph Chang (Ji-Yong), Lawrence Ko (Hong), Frankie Gao (Brother Bao)<sup>[1](https://trigon-film.org/en/films/au-revoir-taipei-yi-ye-tai-bei/)</sup> |\n| Awards | NETPAC Award, Berlinale 2010; Jury Award, Deauville Asian Film Festival 2010; Best New Talent, Taipei Film Festival 2010<sup>[2](https://file.moc.gov.tw/001/Upload/OldFiles/AdminUploads/contenthistory/2010TaiwanCinemaPDFII.pdf)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[4](https://www.taiwanfilmfestival.org.au/2023-program/au-revoir-taipei)</sup> |\n| Taiwan release | April 2, 2010<sup>[6](https://asianwiki.com/Au_Revoir_Taipei)</sup> |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot\n\nKai (Jack Yao) works at his parents' noodle restaurant by day and spends his nights in a bookstore trying to learn French, hoping to follow his girlfriend, who has left for Paris.<sup>[7](https://www.betacinema.com/138/pid/103/Au-revoir-Taipei.htm)</sup> When she ends the relationship by phone, he decides to fly to Paris and turns to the neighborhood gangster boss Bao (Frankie Gao), who offers a plane ticket in exchange for delivering a mysterious package.<sup>[6](https://asianwiki.com/Au_Revoir_Taipei)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[5](https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2010/04/02/2003469519)</sup> The package draws pursuit from police and gangsters, including Bao's nephew Hong (Lawrence Ko), who kidnaps Kai's friend in exchange for the goods.<sup>[8](https://eng.koreafilm.or.kr/movie/PM_008263)</sup>\n\nIn the middle of the chaos Kai runs into Susie (Amber Kuo), a clerk at the bookstore who has taken an interest in him, and the two spend the night running, scooting, and dancing through night markets, twisting alleyways, and other corners of Taipei, gradually falling in love.<sup>[7](https://www.betacinema.com/138/pid/103/Au-revoir-Taipei.htm)</sup> By early morning Kai must decide whether to board the flight to Paris.<sup>[7](https://www.betacinema.com/138/pid/103/Au-revoir-Taipei.htm)</sup> He does leave, but the film's conclusion shows him returning to the bookstore, where he and Susie share a closing dance shot.<sup>[9](https://escholarship.org/content/qt751813hj/qt751813hj.pdf)</sup>\n\n## Production and background\n\n**A debut with pedigree.** Au Revoir Taipei was Arvin Chen's first feature, made after the success of his short film MEI (2007), which won the Silver Bear in Berlin's International Short Film Competition; the feature has been described as an expanded sequel to that 12-minute short, with Jack Yao again playing the lead.<sup>[4](https://www.taiwanfilmfestival.org.au/2023-program/au-revoir-taipei)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[5](https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2010/04/02/2003469519)</sup> The German director [Wim Wenders](https://www.edgepedia.org/wim-wenders) served as executive producer.<sup>[4](https://www.taiwanfilmfestival.org.au/2023-program/au-revoir-taipei)</sup> Chen, a Taiwanese American who studied architecture and filmmaking in the United States, had earlier worked as an apprentice to director Edward Yang in Taiwan for almost two years starting in 2000; the film's end credits close with the characters 謝謝楊導, \"Thanks to Director Yang.\"<sup>[10](https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/bitstream/fub188/7185/1/Film_language_interpretation_of_the_image_of_the_city.pdf)</sup>\n\nThe film was produced by Atom Cinema of Taipei and Greenskyfilms Inc. of Los Angeles, with In-Ah Lee, Wei-Jan Liu, and Oi Leng Lui as producers, cinematography by Michael Fimognari, editing by Justin Guerrieri, and a score by Hsu Wen.<sup>[2](https://file.moc.gov.tw/001/Upload/OldFiles/AdminUploads/contenthistory/2010TaiwanCinemaPDFII.pdf)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[1](https://trigon-film.org/en/films/au-revoir-taipei-yi-ye-tai-bei/)</sup> The Taipei Times review singled out Hsu Wen's soundtrack as lending the story an \"irresistibly jazzy tone.\"<sup>[5](https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2010/04/02/2003469519)</sup>\n\n## The title\n\nThe Chinese title 一頁台北 puns on the words for \"page\" (頁) and \"night\" (夜), which sound alike in Mandarin, alluding to both the bookstore setting and the single-night narrative.<sup>[3](https://www.scmp.com/article/722486/au-revoir-taipei?module=inline&pgtype=others)</sup> In an interview, Chen explained that the Chinese title came first: the film depicts not a complete Taipei but a personal, imagined small world, like one page of a book that a reader can flip through.<sup>[11](https://funscreen.tfai.org.tw/node/9404)</sup> For the English title, a literal \"one page Taipei\" felt flat, so the filmmakers chose the French \"au revoir,\" which means \"see you again\" rather than a final goodbye, fitting a story about leaving a city with the intention of returning.<sup>[11](https://funscreen.tfai.org.tw/node/9404)</sup>\n\n## Taipei as a character\n\nThe film presents nocturnal Taipei as romantically as cinema has traditionally presented Paris, with the Shida night market, downtown alleys, and [Taipei 101](https://www.edgepedia.org/taipei-101) in the distance rendered in vivid color.<sup>[5](https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2010/04/02/2003469519)</sup> An opening montage introduces the city through typical locations: a busy street against the skyline, an MRT station entrance, a night market, people dancing in a park, an MRT line, and an alley.<sup>[12](https://escholarship.org/content/qt751813hj/qt751813hj_noSplash_3ee41fbe869bf1c35aa7dcf9ae15b834.pdf)</sup> Scholars have read the film as a transnational co-production that aligns with a film-tourism branding agenda pursued by the Taipei authorities, and as intertextually referencing art-cinema classics including [Jean-Luc Godard](https://www.edgepedia.org/jean-luc-godard)'s Bande à part (1964).<sup>[13](https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/95151/)</sup>\n\n## Reception\n\nAfter screening in the Forum section of the 60th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2010, the film won the NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) award for Best Asian Film.<sup>[6](https://asianwiki.com/Au_Revoir_Taipei)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[2](https://file.moc.gov.tw/001/Upload/OldFiles/AdminUploads/contenthistory/2010TaiwanCinemaPDFII.pdf)</sup> It also screened at the Melbourne, Sydney, and Edinburgh international film festivals in 2010, and won Best New Talent at the Taipei Film Festival.<sup>[4](https://www.taiwanfilmfestival.org.au/2023-program/au-revoir-taipei)</sup> The Hollywood Reporter called it \"a perky urban dramedy that makes one smile from ear to ear,\" and Variety described it as \"a well-crafted romancer.\"<sup>[7](https://www.betacinema.com/138/pid/103/Au-revoir-Taipei.htm)</sup>\n\nIn Taiwan the film achieved large box-office success and became one of the most popular Taiwanese movies of 2010.<sup>[12](https://escholarship.org/content/qt751813hj/qt751813hj_noSplash_3ee41fbe869bf1c35aa7dcf9ae15b834.pdf)</sup> Some viewers criticized its loose ends and lack of resolution, but many were more interested in locating the film's shooting locations, and the movie induced a wave of film-tourism interest in Taipei.<sup>[9](https://escholarship.org/content/qt751813hj/qt751813hj.pdf)</sup>\n\n## References\n\n1. [Au revoir Taipei - Yi ye Tai bei, trigon-film](https://trigon-film.org/en/films/au-revoir-taipei-yi-ye-tai-bei/)\n2. [Au Revoir Taipei 一頁台北, Taiwan Cinema, Ministry of Culture (2010 catalog)](https://file.moc.gov.tw/001/Upload/OldFiles/AdminUploads/contenthistory/2010TaiwanCinemaPDFII.pdf)\n3. [Au Revoir Taipei, South China Morning Post, 19 August 2010](https://www.scmp.com/article/722486/au-revoir-taipei?module=inline&pgtype=others)\n4. [AU REVOIR TAIPEI《一頁台北》, Taiwan Film Festival Australia, 2023 program](https://www.taiwanfilmfestival.org.au/2023-program/au-revoir-taipei)\n5. [FILM REVIEW: Paris, Taipei, Taipei Times, 2 April 2010](https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2010/04/02/2003469519)\n6. [Au Revoir Taipei, AsianWiki](https://asianwiki.com/Au_Revoir_Taipei)\n7. [Au revoir Taipei, Beta Cinema](https://www.betacinema.com/138/pid/103/Au-revoir-Taipei.htm)\n8. [Au Revoir Taipei, Korean Film Archive (KOFA) Cinematheque](https://eng.koreafilm.or.kr/movie/PM_008263)\n9. [UC Berkeley](https://escholarship.org/content/qt751813hj/qt751813hj.pdf)\n10. [Film Language Interpretation of the Image of the City, Freie Universität Berlin (refubium)](https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/bitstream/fub188/7185/1/Film_language_interpretation_of_the_image_of_the_city.pdf)\n11. [我在城市的夜裡談情說愛：專訪《一頁台北》導演陳駿霖, 放映週報, 2 April 2010](https://funscreen.tfai.org.tw/node/9404)\n12. [Contemporary Pan-Chinese Cinematic Urbanism in Taiwan and Hong Kong, eScholarship](https://escholarship.org/content/qt751813hj/qt751813hj_noSplash_3ee41fbe869bf1c35aa7dcf9ae15b834.pdf)\n13. [Martin-Jones, David (2014). Branded city living: Taipei becoming-Paris in Yi ye Taibei/Au Revoir Taipei (2010). Asian Cinema 25(1), 15–31](https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/95151/)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Films and standalone screen works › Individual films by title and year › Comedy and romantic films (individual works) › Comedies of 2009 to 2010 › Released in 2010*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n",
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