Cute Girl

{{Infobox film

| name = Cute Girl

| native_name = {{Infobox Chinese/Chinese|child=yes|hide=no|header=none

| l =She sure is slick

| c ={{linktext|就是|溜溜|的|她}}

| p = jiùshì liūliū de tā

}}| image = DVD cover of Cute Girl (aka Lovable You).jpg

| caption = DVD cover

| director = Hou Hsiao-hsien

| producer =

| writer = Hou Hsiao-hsien

| starring = Kenny Bee
Anthony Chan
Fong Fei Fei

| music = Mou Shan Huang

| cinematography = Chen Kunhou

| editing =

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|1980}}

| runtime = 90 minutes

| country = Taiwan

| language = Mandarin

}}

Cute Girl, also known as Lovable You{{citation|last=Hong|first=Guo-Juin|title=Taiwan Cinema: A Contested Nation on Screen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bdXHAAAAQBAJ|date=March 2011|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-230-11832-4}}, page [https://books.google.com/books?id=bdXHAAAAQBAJ&q=Lovable+You 89] ({{zh|c=就是溜溜的她}}), is a 1980 Taiwanese romantic drama film directed by director Hou Hsiao-hsien, starring Kenny Bee, Anthony Chan and Fong Fei-fei. It was Hou Hsiao-hsien's first feature film.{{Cite web |title=Early Hou Hsiao-hsien: Three Films 1980-1983 {{!}} Eureka |url=https://eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/early-hou-hsiao-hsien-three-films-1980-1983/ |access-date=2023-06-25 |language=en-GB}}

Plot

Wenwen, the daughter of a rich Taipei business tycoon, is set up with the son of another illustrious family for potential marriage. She flees for several days to her aunt's house in a mountain village prior to facing her potential husband. There she falls in love with Daigang, an infrastructure engineer conducting a road survey in the village. When Wewen is called back to Taipei by her father the lovers are split, but Daigang is not so easily defeated nor is he exactly who he seems.

Cast

Kenny Be as Daigang
Fong Fei-fei as Wenwen

Reception

A retrospective review explains: "As author Philip Kemp rightfully points out in his essay on the filmmaker's early works, concepts such as the contrast between rural and urban Taiwan or traditional family values, represented by Wenwen's parents, are present throughout Cute Girl, even though they are more in the background it seems. At the same time, the combination of pop songs and the often corny scenes between the protagonists, especially the first concept is often on the verge of being romanticized."{{Cite web |last=Linnarz |first=Rouven |date=2022-03-01 |title=Film Review: Cute Girl (1980) by Hou Hsiao-Hsien |url=https://asianmoviepulse.com/2022/03/film-review-cute-girl-1980-by-hou-hsiao-hsien/ |access-date=2023-06-25 |website=Asian Movie Pulse |language=en-US}}

References

External links

{{IMDb title|tt0080964|Cute Girl}}

Category:1980s Mandarin-language films

Category:1980 films

Category:1980 romantic drama films

Category:Films directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien

Category:Taiwanese romantic drama films

Category:1980 directorial debut films