Taipei Exchanges

2010 [CHINESE]

Comedy / Drama

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 69% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 69% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 715 715

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Plot summary

Doris simply wanted to open a refined, stylish coffee shop in a bohemian Taipei neighborhood, but when she's stuck with a load of useless gifts from the opening celebration, her younger sister Josie turns the café into a burgeoning bartering business. There, even a soulful song (by Japanese singer Atari Kosuke in a cameo) is a tradable commodity. One day, a traveler brings in 35 soaps from around the world with a story for each of them, awakening Doris' imagination about the outside world that she has never seen.

Director

Top cast

Zaizai Lin as Joise
Lun-Mei Kwei as Doris
Chun-chieh Lee as Lin Tung-Ching
Han Chang as Chou Chun-Ching
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752.27 MB
1280*720
Chinese 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 21 min
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1.36 GB
1920*1080
Chinese 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 21 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by xinbuluan33

Time to Open a Coffee Shop

I have always wanted to open a coffee shop and naturally when I saw this film it had touched my heart. What is the value and objective in life, this is the main theme of the film. Saving money, said the elder sister played by Kwei. I wanted to travel round the world, said the younger. At the end of the movie, the objectives of life of the two sisters swapped and their mother nagged of their changes. But there is no change, said the taxi-driver, one daughter wants saving money and the other want travelling around the world.I read a book that says there are three main objectives in life: security, meaning and novelty. The difference is your priority. If you want saving money, you seek security and if you want to travel around the world, you seek for novelty. Romance, well, meaning of life.But then there are the exchanges - the 36 stories for each soap collected from around the world in 36 cities. Exchanges mean swapping your value system with some one else. No man is an island. I like the exchanges part of the movie, be it romantic exchange or money exchange or barter - change of commodity.Taipei Exchange is a light-hearted but a soul-searching journey and a nice exchange with the director. And of course, the like the part of opening and operating a coffee shop too.
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Reviewed by housearrestedever 1 / 10

Beyond Salvage...

What a horrible and pretentious movie. The narrative with a woman's voice is absolutely terrible. The dialog, the acting and the screenplay are all nothing but a joke. I never understood why all the Taiwanese screenplay writers, directors and the actors never grew out of the immaturity and pretentiousness. Most of the Taiwanese movies are either trapped in the adolescent retrospection, puppy love, memories of the elementary, junior high and high school days, or the laughable delinquent gangster genre crap. I can't even find an actor who's really talented enough to play a role like what a realistic person should behave. The forever poorly patched and unnaturally manufactured dialog simply made all the actors to act worse and exaggeratedly awkward. No matter how they tried to make a barely watchable movie, it always gave you an impression of immature and more feminine feeling. There's no way to keep me from impatience to most of the Taiwanese movies whatsoever. No, I am not particularly discriminating against the Taiwanese movies, but a viewer who watches all kinds of movies from so many different countries on a daily basis, but why Taiwanese movies always let me down and made me lose patience every time and decided to quit within 5 to 10 minutes; 15 to 20 minutes was a miracle, albeit in the middle or approaching the end.

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