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Arts & Entertainment

Indie Film Spotlight

Monrovia Public Library in collaboration with Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Press Division will be hosting a screening of No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti, an award winning Taiwanese film at the Monrovia Public Library on Monday, October 10 at 6:30 p.m. in the Library Community Room. The event is free and open to the public. The film will be shown with English subtitles.

The film begins with a man holding a young girl and threatening to jump from an overpass into traffic before backing up to reveal how he ended up there. The man is an impoverished worker and the girl is his daughter. Ordered to register her for school, the man is informed that his guardianship is not legal, and he resorts to increasingly desperate means to address the situation even as he becomes further entangled in bureaucracy. Shot in austerely beautiful black-and-white widescreen, No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti won best picture and best director at Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards, Taiwan's equivalent to the Oscars and was selected as Taiwan's official entry for the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film in 2010.

Registration is encouraged. Stop by the Adult Reference Desk, call 626-256-8274, or visit www.monroviapubliclibrary.org and click on the calendar icon on the top left of the page. Find DATE, click on the event and sign up. Walk-ins welcome.

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