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Sweet Degeneration

Sweet Degeneration

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1997

Runtime

1h 58m

Genres

Drama

User Score

40%

Original Title

放浪

Director

Lin Cheng-sheng

Description

With a singular voice that distinguishes him from his New Taiwan Cinema contemporaries, Lin Cheng-sheng adds to his brief, but already remarkable, filmography with Sweet Degeneration, his third film in two years. As with A Drifting Life and Murmur of Youth, Lin’s new film delicately unfolds, gradually building to a climax of stunning emotional reverberations. Drawn from a particularly painful episode in the director’s past, Sweet Degeneration delves into the uneasy bonds a brother and sister have with each other and the people around them.