 Category : EntertainmentThe Inspired Island II: My City (2015) (Blu-ray + DVD + Book) (English Subtitled) (Taiwan Version)Price: USD31.99 The Inspired Island , a series of six documentaries about eminent Taiwan literary figures, drew great praise in 2011. The acclaimed series returns with seven more films about prominent Taiwan and Hong Kong writers in its second installment, The Inspired Island II . While other films in the series are directed by up-and-coming filmmakers, Hong Kong auteur Fruit Chan takes on documenting Hong Kong writer Xi Xi in My City . A pioneering figure of contemporary Hong Kong literature, Xi Xi began writing in the fifties, and has left her handprints in many different mediums poetry, novels, essays, columns, film reviews and scripts in a half century of literary work. In recent years, she embraced the hobby of sewing teddy bears for physical therapy, and turned her bears into another form of artistic and literary expression. Fruit Chan captures Xi Xi in her home and her city of Hong Kong, accompanying the writer and her whimsical creations on a journey down memory lane. This edition comes with the film on Blu-ray and DVD, a book about Xi Xi and 76 minutes of special features .Other products from YesAsia |