Five years after Moonlight Shadow, Tôn Thất An is teaming up again with Malaysian director Edmund Yeo for Age of Goodbyes a film based on the Li Zi Shu‘s novel of the same name, “a trancelike, poetic meditation on intergenerational trauma, rooted in the literary tradition of Chinese-language novels” (Karen Cheung).
Shooting took place last year in Ipoh, with Chen Chih Wen as cinematographer, while post-production was done in the second half of 2025.
For the score, Tôn Thất An has reunited with his long-time musical partners, namely Edric Chang (violin), Emily Chang (cello), Keith Lee (guzheng) and Gan Guo (erhu).
The film being a multidimensional hall of mirrors with a narrative spanning five decades, the music journeys through different styles and genres, fron Baroque music to experimental music, choral works, pieces for cello or erhu, 90’s club music or Chinese cha-cha.
Sound mixing took place at the mythical 3H Studio in Taipei, with Tu Tse-Kang and Tu Duu-Chih supervising.
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