The Abandoned (2022 film)

The Abandoned
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Traditional Chinese查無此心
Simplified Chinese查无此心
Literal meaning"No trace of the heart"
Hanyu PinyinChá wú cǐ xīn
Directed byTseng Ying-ting
Written byTseng Ying-ting
Yang Yi-chien
Lin Pin-chun
Hsu Shih-hui
Produced byDavid Tang
Janine Chang
StarringJanine Chang
Ethan Juan
Production
company
Renaissance Films et.al
Distributed byNetflix (United States)
Release dates
  • October 22, 2022 (2022-10-22) (London East Asia)
  • September 8, 2023 (2023-09-08) (Taiwan)
Running time
128 minutes[1]
CountryTaiwan
LanguagesMandarin
Thai

The Abandoned (Chinese: 查無此心) is a 2022 Taiwanese mystery crime thriller film directed and co-written by Tseng Ying-ting.

Premise

On New Year's Eve, a corpse washed up on the shore stops Wu Jie, the police officer, when she is ready to kill herself. The victim was a migrant worker without her heart and a finger. It is obviously a murder. Police get no more clues from the body. In the meantime, they get an anonymous call, which complicates the case. Wu Jie concludes that whoever abandoned the body is not the killer. Lin You-sheng is in trouble because a female dead body has been found in a factory. To avoid the police, he buries the body in the mountains by himself. In the meantime, his girlfriend, Waree, has lost touch. Wu Jie finds Lin and asks him to identify a body that turns out to be Waree's. Lin is seen as the prime suspect of the serial murders.[2]

Cast

Release

The film was screened in the London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF)'s Competition section on October 22, 2022,[4] followed by its Taiwanese premiere at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival on November 5.[5]

Awards and nominations

Awards Category Recipient Result Ref.
59th Golden Horse Awards Best New Director Tseng Ying-ting Nominated [6]
Best Art Direction Yeh Tzu-wei Nominated
Best Makeup & Costume Design Lore Shih and Chang Fu-chen Nominated
Best Action Choreography Hung Shih-hao Nominated
Best Sound Effects R.T Kao, Tsai Doit and Kenny Cheng Nominated
FIPRESCI Prize The Abandoned Nominated
Taipei Film Awards 2023
Best Feature Film The Abandoned Nominated
Best Director Tseng Ying-ting Nominated
Best Screenplay Yang Yi-Chien, Lin Pin-jun, Xu Shihui, Tseng Ying-ting Nominated
Best Actress Ning Chang Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Chen Wei-min Nominated
Best Cinematography Liu Zhihuan, Liu Chenwei Nominated
Best Editing Liao Ching-Sung, Li Junhong Nominated
Best Original Score Yang Wanqian Won
Best Art Design Yeh Tzu-wei Nominated
Best Design Lore Shih, Victor Chang Won
Best Sound Design R.T Kao, Tsai Doit and Kenny Cheng Nominated
Best Visual Effects Jonah West, Wang Baixin Nominated

References

  1. ^ "台北金馬影展 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival | 查無此心". www.goldenhorse.org.tw (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  2. ^ "LEAFF 2022 - COMPETITION". LEAFF. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  3. ^ a b c "張鈞甯新作《查無此心》成遺珠 阮經天落馬". tw.news.yahoo.com (in Chinese). 27 September 2022. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  4. ^ Rosati, Adriana (25 September 2022). "London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF) is back for its 7th Edition. Here is the Full Programme". Asian Movie Pulse. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  5. ^ "獨》張鈞甯出道20年首度升格監製《查無此心》找贊助籌資沒包袱 - 娛樂". 中時新聞網 (in Chinese). Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  6. ^ "Hong Kong film 'Limbo' leads Golden Horse Award nominations - Focus Taiwan". focustaiwan.tw. 27 September 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2022.