The Abandoned (2022 film)
The Abandoned (Chinese: 查無此心) is a 2022 Taiwanese crime film directed and co-written by Tseng Ying-ting.
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| Traditional Chinese | 查無此心 |
| Simplified Chinese | 查无此心 |
| Literal meaning | "No trace of the heart" |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Chá wú cǐ xīn |
| Directed by | Tseng Ying-ting |
| Written by | Tseng Ying-ting Yang Yi-chien Lin Pin-chun Hsu Shih-hui |
| Produced by | David Tang Janine Chang |
| Starring | Janine Chang Ethan Juan |
Production company | Renaissance Films et.al |
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Running time | 128 minutes[1] |
| Country | Taiwan |
| Languages | Mandarin Thai |
Premise
On New Year's Eve, a female corpse washed up on the shore stops Wu Jie, the police officer, when she is ready to kill herself. What looks like an accident is proved to be a dead migrant worker without her heart and a finger. It is obviously a murder. However, they can't get any more clues from the dead body. In the meantime, the police get an anonymous call, which complicates the case. Wu Jie concludes that whoever abandoned the body isn't the killer. Lin You-sheng is in trouble because a female dead body has been found in a factory. To avoid the police, he buries the body in the mountains by himself. In the meantime, his girlfriend, Waree, has lost touch. Wu Jie finds Lin and asks him to identify a body that turns out to be Waree. Lin is seen as the prime suspect of the serial murders.
— LEAFF[2]
Cast
- Janine Chang as Wu Jie
- Ethan Juan as Lin You-sheng
- Sajee Apiwong[3]
- Hsueh Shih-ling as Huang Dong-qi[3]
- Chen Wei-min as Sheriff[3]
Release
The film was screened in the London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF)'s Competition section on October 22, 2022,[4] followed by its Taiwanese premiere at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival on November 5th.[5]
Awards and nominations
| Awards | Category | Recipient | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 59th Golden Horse Awards | Best New Director | Tseng Ying-ting | Nominated | [6] |
| Best Art Direction | Yeh Tzu-wei | Nominated | ||
| Best Makeup & Costume Design | Lore Shih and Chang Fu-chen | Nominated | ||
| Best Action Choreography | Hung Shih-hao | Nominated | ||
| Best Sound Effects | R.T Kao, Tsai Doit and Kenny Cheng | Nominated | ||
| FIPRESCI Prize | The Abandoned | Nominated | ||
| 第25屆台北電影節Taipei Film Festival | ||||
| 最佳劇情長片 | The abandoned | Nominated | ||
| 最佳導演 | 曾英庭 | Nominated | ||
| 最佳編劇 | 楊貽茜、林品君、許世輝、曾英庭 | Nominated | ||
| 最佳女主角 | 張鈞甯 | Nominated | ||
| 最佳男配角 | 陳為民 | Nominated | ||
| 最佳攝影 | 劉至桓、劉晨暐 | Nominated | ||
| 最佳剪輯 | 廖慶松、李俊宏 | Nominated | ||
| 最佳配樂 | 楊琬茜 | Won | ||
| 最佳美術設計 | 葉子瑋 | Nominated | ||
| 最佳造型設計 | 施筱柔、張甫丞 | Won | ||
| 最佳聲音設計 | 高偉晏、蔡篤易、鄭元凱 | Nominated | ||
| 最佳視覺效果 | Jonah WEST、王柏欣 | Nominated |
References
- "台北金馬影展 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival | 查無此心". www.goldenhorse.org.tw (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved 18 November 2022.
- "LEAFF 2022 - COMPETITION". LEAFF. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
- "張鈞甯新作《查無此心》成遺珠 阮經天落馬". tw.news.yahoo.com (in Chinese). Retrieved 1 October 2022.
- Rosati, Adriana (25 September 2022). "London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF) is back for its 7th Edition. Here is the Full Programme". Asian Movie Pulse. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
- "獨》張鈞甯出道20年首度升格監製《查無此心》找贊助籌資沒包袱 - 娛樂". 中時新聞網 (in Chinese). Retrieved 1 October 2022.
- "Hong Kong film 'Limbo' leads Golden Horse Award nominations - Focus Taiwan". focustaiwan.tw. Retrieved 27 September 2022.