Apart Together (Tuan Yuan) - 60th Berlinale Opening Film

—— Diretor Wang Quan'an Talked about Apart Together "Life is more than edited things"

Chian Director Wang Quan'an always try to make a simple yet profound flim. It seems his new film Apart Together let him realize his dream. In the 60th Berlinale, this opening film got a very great response.

This is a very simple story, an old man came back to Shanghai after leaving the army in Taiwan, hoping to find his lost wife and bring her back to Taiwan to live together. After many years, his wife has already remarried and lived a peaceful life with her current husband. His coming back broke their peaceful life. Finally, her current husband agree the wife to go back to Taiwan with the old man while he was sufferring for such reality. And the wife also involved in the complication emotions between love and familial affection. A history, two compassions, three old men delibrated sometimes peaceful sometimes passionate emotional journey.

"It happened to occure me to create this film after getting a news for a soldier looked for his wife in Shanghai from Taiwan. It seems to be just a marriage relationship in the surface, however, it contains our covered pain in the last century." The director said.

" Chinese especially concerns family unit which always contains happiness and worry. Sometimes together would not the same as we imagined since we cannot surpass wall bulit with passing time. However, we still pursue such concept with eager. That is the main meaning I try to convey in this movie." said Wang Quan'an, "This movie uses Chinese specific emotional expressed way to convey Chinese emotion through several conversation and dinner."

In fact, Wang Quan'an thought Simple but sincere descriptive way can more like his style, "Besides reflecting ture world, I cannot imagine what else we can creat. Life is more than edited things. And my job is to discover life. I hope to stick in this road and continue to go deeper, which is my main interests. Everyone has different understanding for creation, I want to try a depth with going through one direction ability. That would be possible more valuable than the surface trial."