My Last Secret (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Taiwan Version) DVD Region 3

Screened at the 9th Jeonju International Film Festival 2008 and the CNEX Documentary Film Festival 2007, My Last Secret may just be one of the best documentaries ever to come from Mainland China. Directors Li Xiaofeng and Jia Kai took seven years to make this personal documentary following a graceful old lady in her nineties and her uneducated caretaker in her sixties, who lived together on an old street in Suzhou. Through the film, we witness how their relationship changes from a somewhat antagonistic one to one with mutual trust and dependence. The old lady, born in a prestigious family in Shanghai, was an athletic star at school, and later eloped with her lover. Her husband eventually died and left her reminiscing about her youthful days and her late lover. The childless old lady wrote a will that her savings would be donated to the local university for a scholarship. She regards the will as her last secret, one that everyone else knows but can't quite understand.

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Product Title:	My Last Secret (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Taiwan Version) 我最後的秘密 (DVD) (中英文字幕) (台灣版) 我最後的秘密 (DVD) (中英文字幕) (台湾版) 我最後的秘密 (台湾版) My Last Secret (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Taiwan Version)
Director:	Jia Kai | Li Xiao Feng 賈愷 | 黎小鋒 贾恺 | 黎小锋 Jia Kai | Li Xiao Feng Jia Kai | Li Xiao Feng
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Release Date:	2009-05-11
Language:	Mandarin
Subtitles:	English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese
Country of Origin:	China
Picture Format:	NTSC What is it?
Aspect Ratio:	1.33 : 1
Disc Format(s):	DVD
Region Code:	3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan) What is it?
Duration:	90 (mins)
Package Weight:	120 (g)
Shipment Unit:	1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.:	1020210716

Director: Li Xiao Feng, Jia Kai

On an ancient Suzhou street with traditional white walls and black tiles, an old lady in her nineties lives with her caretaker who is in her sixties. The old lady comes from a prestigious family and was a national athletic star during her college years. After fleeing to Suzhou from Shanghai together with her lover, her life was filled with hardship. Her husband didn't leave her, but always betrayed her, and in the end passed away before her. After her husband's death, the old lady, who has no children, wrote a will that she will give all her money to the local university for a scholarship.

The old lady treated her will as a secret. However, everybody knew this secret. People couldn't understand why she would give money to students who had never taken care of her? Once while she was sick and had an unclear mind, her caretaker make her write a slip promising to give the caretaker RMB 20,000. In order to get this money, the caretaker began to study and learn one Chinese character her niece, which made the caretaker envious. So, the care-taker and the niece began to bad-mouth each oth er before the old lady...

Before we know it, six years passed. Half of the old street was dismantled and the other half remains. With all th ehappening in the world, the old lady lived through the frustration in her life and was revitalized at age 95, just like an accient tree producing new buds. Under the autumn sunlight and with the caretaker by her side, she caressed the remaining bit of a photo showing her with rosy lips, missed her late husband, and pandered how her secret would one day be disclosed and what legacy she would leave - all things that seem meaningless to those around her.