If you loved Un día de verano, try Una historia de Taipei
Un puente entre una película que ya has visto y una que casi nadie ha cruzado. Esto es lo que comparten, y lo que la segunda hace que la primera no hace.
Lo que comparten
Both films are directed by Edward Yang, and they both carry the bittersweet, foreign gem, outsider mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Un día de verano, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Una historia de Taipei is
Taipei Story is a melancholy rumination on belonging, where a woman trying to outpace the city’s relentless modernization butts against a man whose nostalgia keeps him tethered to a dead-end dealership and a stalled baseball dream. The film sidesteps sentimentality by treating both characters’ obsessions with the same cool detachment. It’s a cinematic time capsule of 1980s Taipei, carried by the director’s signature observational stillness.

