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Blue Cha Cha ( Chinese: Shēn hǎi, 深海) is a 2005 Taiwanese film directed by Chen Wen-Tang. It was Taiwan's submission to the 79th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. [1] [2] A close friend said after his passing, “There is always a big sadness when someone beloved has gone, but for Manuel there is a sense of happiness, because he lived as he wished, he traveled the seven seas, he loved, he drank and he touched the angels. Surely, tonight they are preparing a jam session with Ibrahim, Cachao and his other friends – where rum will finish all of them, and they’ll keep playing until dawn…”

The film did the rounds of the European film festival circuit, screening at the 2006 International Film Festival Rotterdam, [5] the 2006 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, [6] and the 33rd Brussels International Independent Film Festival where it won the festival's Grand Prize. [7] In 2016, ten years after its release, the film screened as part of the Kaohsiung Film Festival. [8] As we approach the one-year anniversary of Galbán’s passing (July 7, 2011), the result is a recording with an almost orchestral feel, bursting with the energy that only he could glean from the guitar. With his uniquely personal stylistic elegance, Galbán could transform any tune into a gem, adapting it to a language ahead of its time, a language he created, where the sounds of the instrument bore as much significance as the discourse of the guitar. Galbán was a cornerstone of the six-string instrument, and he achieved something that very few are ever able to do: only a couple of bars are needed to recognize his unmistakable style. Cha Cha_ requires patience. That’s code for it being an art house film which moves slowly and doesn’t offer a lot of detail as to why things are happening. Beyond an ambiguous statement near the end of the film revealing why Ah Yu was in prison we never learn anything about her past, and throughout the film it is clear that she has no idea nor concrete desires for her future. She just drifts along, medicated, mentally unstable yet always trying to be nice, hoping each day will offer some measure of fulfillment. _Blue Cha Cha_ isn’t a low-budget indie film, tho. It has excellent production values and looks gorgeous. The direction is fluid and creative and the cinematography crisp and colorful.Foreign language Oscar nominees announced". The New Zealand Herald. 2007-01-17 . Retrieved 2008-06-22. The film observes as An-an wades through two traumatic relationships, one with a rich and probably corrupt patron of Ah Yu's bar, and the other with a young manager at the electronics factory she ends up working at. If the film seems at all directionless during these sequences, it's to reflect An-an's own uncertainties about her future. Through the deliberate pacing, the film refuses to surpass An-an's own sense of speed; to drive the plot any faster would be to betray her gradual emotional re-awakening. It's a great pleasure when watching a film you're enjoying and knew nothing about to recognize that beyond being a good film you are also experiencing the work of a skilled director. The upside to this is that there's a good chance you'll have at least a few more good films in your future. Such is the case with Blue Cha Cha. Director Zheng Wentang: I want to keep the rookie spirit". Business Today (in Chinese). 19 November 2015 . Retrieved 2 June 2021.

The dulcet tones of Rosa Passos almost seem like a whispered declaration of love. “I felt very happy and honored when I was invited to participate on the beautiful song ‘Alma Mía’ on Manuel Galbán’s final album,” Passos says. In 2003, I saw Cheng Wen-tang's debut feature, the magisterial Somewhere over the Dreamland, at the Asian Film Festival in San Francisco's 4 Star Theatre. Floored by the film's poetic treatment of lost love, I knew I had just viewed one of the best Taiwanese films in recent years. Blue Cha Cha depicts Ah Yu ( Tarcy Su), a woman in her thirties who has just been released from prison. She stays with an older women, An An ( Lu Yi-ching), the proprietor of a girlie bar in the port town of Kaohsiung, and attempts to form relationships with two men: businessman Chen Sang ( Leon Dai) and factory worker Hao (Wei Lee). [3] [4] However, Blue Cha Cha is not merely an album of encounters; rather, it is about reunions. Galbán revives a repertoire that formed part of his musical education, and he performs alongside colleagues with whom he had shared stages and studios on earlier occasions. It offers a memory of those who are no longer with us, as indeed one can detect a sense of sorrow in “Duele,” which Galbán performed with GRAMMY® Award winning singer Omara Portuondo. “I feel very thankful and proud for being part of this album,” says Portuondo. “Manuel Galbán was an incredible musician and a great person who contributed immensely to Cuban music.” The setting was the Laemmle Sunset Theatre in West Hollywood; the event was the VC Film Festival. Only a small handful of patrons arrive for the screening, but that's expected for a small Asian film by a director whose previous films are unavailable anywhere.

Sneider, Jeff (2006-10-19). "Oscar race counts 61 countries". Variety. Archived from the original on 2012-12-05 . Retrieved 2008-06-22.

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