Hou Hsiao-hsien 15: Contexts 6 - Foolish Bride Naive Bridegroom, Hsin Chi, 1967

https://notesonfilm1.com/2021/06/11/hou-hsiao-hsien-15-contexts-6-foolish-bride-naive-bridegroom-hsin-chi-1967/ We continue our discussion of the films kindly made available in wonderful versions by the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute. This time we discuss the second Hsin Chi film on view, FOOLISH BRIDE, NAIVE BRIDEGROOM, a wonderfully inventive screwball comedy displaying a wide array of cinematic devices for humours effect (stop-motion, music, fluid camera), anchoring it in solid structure, set on the cusp of modernity, and humorously putting all the major decisions on the hands of the female protagonists. Great fun.