Farewell, My Lovely
Fan Wenhan • 2021
Friendless ne’er-do-well ZhiMing works nightshifts as a parking security guard. One day, at the seaside, ZhiMing unexpectedly saves A-Yao, a youth, from drowning himself in the ocean. A-Yao, his conscience stirred, decides to postpone his suicide, and uses his last day on Earth helping ZhiMing realize his heart’s desire. In memory of the departed, but also in consolation of the living, the director uses the medium of film to gently wave goodbye to a lost friend, who left before he could be bid farewell.
AWARDS & FESTIVALS
2021 Golden Harvest Film Festival, Taiwan
CAST & CREW
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
Fan Wenhan
Director
A few years ago, a friend of mine passed away from this world, and to this day, I still can’t find anything positive in his death. To honor his memory, and to comfort myself, I invented the story of a desperate man at the end of his life who formed a friendship and shared an adventure with another man, in the hope that others, like me, who never got a chance to say goodbye, would gently wave goodbye to him through the film.