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Bad Accent Video Reviews: Old Fox

November 21, 2024
Panos Kotzathanasis
Old Fox (2023), Hsiao Ya-chuan's nostalgic coming-of-age drama

Join us as we review (2023), ‘s nostalgic coming-of-age drama that captured four Golden Horse Awards and is Taiwan’s official Oscar submission. Set against the backdrop of Taiwan’s transformative late ’80s, the film tells the heartfelt story of young Liao Jie () navigating a moral tug-of-war between his empathetic father, Tai-lai (), and the cunning landlord “Old Fox” ().

With a mix of noir aesthetics, captivating performances, and a nostalgic depiction of Taiwan’s changing socio-economic landscape, Old Fox delivers an entertaining yet flawed fairy-tale-like tale of morality. Is it as profound as it aims to be, or does its romanticized elements hold it back? Watch our in-depth breakdown of this crowd-pleasing Golden Horse winner!

💬 Let us know your thoughts on Old Fox! Team Tai-lai or Team Old Fox?

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Panagiotis (Panos) Kotzathanasis is a film critic and reviewer, specialized in Asian Cinema. He is the owner and administrator of Asian Movie Pulse, one of the biggest portals dealing with Asian cinema. He is a frequent writer in Hancinema, Taste of Cinema, and his texts can be found in a number of other publications including SIRP in Estonia, Film.sk in Slovakia, Asian Dialogue in the UK, Cinefil in Japan and Filmbuff in India.

Since 2019, he cooperates with Thessaloniki Cinematheque in Greece, curating various tributes to Asian cinema. He has participated, with video recordings and text, on a number of Asian movie releases, for Spectrum, Dekanalog and Error 4444. He has taken part as an expert on the Erasmus+ program, “Asian Cinema Education”, on the Asian Cinema Education International Journalism and Film Criticism Course.

Apart from a member of FIPRESCI and the Greek Cinema Critics Association, he is also a member of NETPAC, the Hellenic Film Academy and the Online Film Critics Association.

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