Parking (2008 film)

Parking is a 2008 Taiwanese movie.

Synopsis
On Mother's Day in Taipei, Chen-Mo (Chang Chen) makes a dinner date with his wife (Gwei Lun-mei), hoping to improve their estranged relationship. While he is buying a cake on his way home, a car double-parks next to his, preventing his exit. For the entire night, Chen-Mo searches for the owner of the car and encounters a succession of strange events and eccentric characters: an old couple living with their precocious granddaughter who have lost their only son; a one-armed barbershop owner cooking fish-head soup; a mainland Chinese prostitute trying to escape her pimp’s cruel clutches; and a Hong-Kong tailor embroiled in debt and captured by underground loan sharks.

Cast

 * Chang Chen as Chen Mo
 * Gwei Lun-mei as Chen Mo's Wife
 * Leon Dai as Pimp
 * Chapman To as Tailor
 * Jack Kao as Barber
 * Peggy Tseng as Hooker
 * Tou Chung-hua as Gang Leader
 * Lai-Yin Yang
 * Lin Kai-jung as Barber's Granddaughter
 * Holger Chen as Gang Member

Festivals

 * Cannes Film Festival 2008 – Un Certain Regard
 * Montreal World Film Festival 2008
 * Bangkok International Film Festival 2008
 * Vancouver International Film Festival 2008
 * Pusan International Film Festival 2008
 * Hong Kong Asian Film Festival 2008
 * Stockholm International Film Festival 2008
 * Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2008
 * Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2008 – Opening Film
 * !f Istanbul International Independent Film Festival 2009
 * Spokane International Film Festival 2009
 * 2009 Adelaide Film Festival
 * Osaka Asian Film Festival 2009
 * Bradford International Film Festival 2009
 * Taiwan London Cinefest 2009
 * Barcelona Asian Film Festival
 * Silk Screen Film Festival 2009
 * Wisconsin Film Festival 2011

Award

 * Golden Horse Award, Best Art Direction – FIPRESCI Critics Award: Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2008
 * Best New Talent - Audience Favourite Film: Hong Kong Asian Film Festival 2008