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Your Name Engraved Herein

Play trailer 1:52 Poster for Your Name Engraved Herein 2020 1h 58m Romance Drama LGBTQ+ Play Trailer Watchlist
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In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressures, homophobia and social stigma.
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Randy Myers San Jose Mercury News 01/16/2021
3/4
The result is an intimate story with heartfelt performances and sensual cinematography. Go to Full Review
Teo Bugbee New York Times 12/26/2020
Though the movie could coast on the appeal of handsome faces and stolen trips to Taipei, Liu gives texture to their pretty pining. Go to Full Review
Juan Pablo Russo EscribiendoCine 07/31/2023
7/10
With cinematographic virtues and despite some narrative shortcomings, Your Name Engraved Herein is a powerful plea against homophobia and discrimination, a hymn to freedom of thought and feeling... [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
M.N. Miller Ready Steady Cut 09/09/2022
3.5/5
Your Name Engraved Herein has two performances, one electric and the other a slow burn, that complement each other in an emotionally charged film. Go to Full Review
Ben Turner The Pink Lens 08/31/2021
3/5
Like the recent Thai Present Perfect films, it feels like love on a micro-scale and not part of something bigger. But unlike its Thai counterpart, it takes itself much more seriously indeed. Go to Full Review
Brian Bromberger Bay Area Reporter 03/19/2021
Despite these deficiencies, the film is eminently watchable, especially the second half, aided by the attractiveness of the two main protagonists, who construct a believable erotic chemistry. Go to Full Review
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jolin t Jul 31 Intimate and beautiful. See more Zilmara Z 02/12/2024 Amazing. Amazing screenplay, impeccable acting, the shower scene is touching! Very good, it's worth watching! See more Izzy S 01/08/2024 the things I would do to watch this for the first time again. See more Eds L @Edsel12 08/17/2023 This movie is such a masterpiece. Prepare to cry and fall in love. Everyone should see it! See more miki t 11/26/2022 so dramatic and cried hard, but last 10 mins... i mean was it neccessary? See more Peter F 01/24/2022 The test of whether a romance film works—especially a romance drama—is whether you as the audience feel something. There was no issue with feeling something—the entire package was a beautiful, heart-wrenching, playful, heavy journey through a gay love story at a boarding school in late ‘80s Taiwan. Clocking in at nearly two hours (and probably could've cut a significant portion out of the epilogue arc to achieve the same effect), this one is a significant investment of time and energy but the well-acted, beautifully shot story of Birdy and A-han is well worth the saga it takes. I admired on a personal level the decision to make the story more about the love between two friends and not knowing what to do with this love than about sex. Your Name Engraved Herein should become the required romance drama viewing for gay men (way less problematic than Call Me By Your Name, way more fun than Brokeback Mountain); pretty highly recommended for everyone else. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressures, homophobia and social stigma.
Director
Kuang-Hui Liu
Producer
Danielle Yen
Screenwriter
Yu Ning Chu
Genre
Romance, Drama, LGBTQ+
Original Language
Chinese
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 23, 2020
Runtime
1h 58m
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