Detention

Name: Detention
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Released: October 8, 2021
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 67
Cast: Cecilia Choi, Chin-Yu Pan, Ching-Ting Hsia, Chung-Yueh Yun, Gingle Wang

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Dekanalog | Release Date: October 8, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Cecilia Choi, Chin-Yu Pan, Ching-Ting Hsia, Chung-Yueh Yun, Gingle Wang, Hung Chang Chu, Jing-Hua Tseng, Meng-Po Fu, Pen-yu Chang, Yue-Ti Liu

Summary: In 1962 Taiwan during the White Terror martial law period, Fang Ray Shin, a female student at the hillside Greenwood High School is attending counselling with teacher Mr. Chang, and they gradually fall in love. It was a dangerous period where sensitive books were banned and free speech were restricted, but Mr. Chang secretly organised aIn 1962 Taiwan during the White Terror martial law period, Fang Ray Shin, a female student at the hillside Greenwood High School is attending counselling with teacher Mr. Chang, and they gradually fall in love. It was a dangerous period where sensitive books were banned and free speech were restricted, but Mr. Chang secretly organised a study group for banned books, together with fellow teacher Miss Yin and male student Wei Chong Ting.… Expand

Director: John Hsu

Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 102 min

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The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Oct 14, 2021

While a lot of Detention is steeped in anguish and anxiety, the terror induced by those emotions becomes the pathway back into the light. Read full review

Noel Murray

Oct 14, 2021

In gaming terms, this movie’s characters find themselves on a screen where every move leads to a bottomless pit. The nightmare they’re in is as existential as it is visceral. Read full review

Jessica Kiang

Oct 14, 2021

The absorbing and entertaining Detention works well enough as a primer on a traumatic period of history, and as a story of semi-supernatural salvation for sins past, that it earns its surprisingly moving final moments, and even its heavily on-the-nose exhortation to modern-day Taiwan to remember and honor its ghosts. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Isaac Feldberg

Oct 14, 2021

Making his directorial debut, Hsu clearly has an eye for striking imagery, and Detention is filled with moments of shuddering, abstract beauty. But his ghost story never quite materializes from its uncanny ether. Read full review

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