Forever Love

From the school of romanticised whimsy that Taiwan has perfected over the last few years comes this comedy set during 1960s heyday of Taiwanese language cinema When her filmmaker grandfather Liu ChiSheng lands in hospital 18yearold Jie has him recount the love story between him and her grandmother Chiang MeiYue that happened during a visit of the film sets of Beitou Told in sweetly campy cinema flashbacks and semianimated inserts Forever Love is a love letter to Taiwanese cinema as much as it is a romance for the ages