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Away with Words

Index Away with Words

Away with Words (known also by its Chinese title 三條人, roughly translated as Three Life-stories, and its Japanese title 孔雀, translated as Peacock) is a 1999 auteur trilingual (Japanese, English, Cantonese) film by Christopher Doyle co-scripted by Doyle and Tony Rayns and starring Tadanobu Asano and Mavis Xu. [1]

25 relations: Alexander Luria, Amnesia, Auteur, Beer, Cantonese, Chinese language, Christa Hughes, Christopher Doyle, English language, Flashback (narrative), Funes the Memorious, Gay bar, Hong Kong, Japanese language, Jorge Luis Borges, Mavis Hee, Memory, Mnemonic, Okinawa Prefecture, Solomon Shereshevsky, Synesthesia, Tadanobu Asano, Tony Rayns, Un Certain Regard, 1999 Cannes Film Festival.

Alexander Luria

Alexander Romanovich Luria (p; 16 July 1902 – 14 August 1977) was a notable neuropsychologist, often credited as a father of modern neuropsychological assessment.

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Amnesia

Amnesia is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage, disease, or psychological trauma.

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Auteur

An auteur ('author') is an artist, such as a film director, who applies a highly centralized and subjective control to many aspects of a collaborative creative work.

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Beer

Beer is one of the oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic drinks in the world, and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea.

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Cantonese

The Cantonese language is a variety of Chinese spoken in the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding area in southeastern China.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases mutually unintelligible, language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

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Christa Hughes

Christa Hughes is an Australian singer, circus performer and comedian.

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Christopher Doyle

Christopher Doyle, also known as Dù Kěfēng (Mandarin) or Dou Ho-Fung (Cantonese) (born 2 May 1952) is an Australian-Hong Kong cinematographer who often works on Chinese language films.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Flashback (narrative)

A flashback (sometimes called an analepsis) is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story.

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Funes the Memorious

"Funes the Memorious"—original Spanish title "Funes el memorioso"—is a fantasy short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986).

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Gay bar

A gay bar is a drinking establishment that caters to an exclusively or predominantly lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) clientele; the term gay is used as a broadly inclusive concept for LGBT and queer communities.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory of China on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.

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Japanese language

is an East Asian language spoken by about 128 million people, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language literature.

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Mavis Hee

Mavis Hee (born 27 September 1974), born Xu Meifeng, and also known as Xu Meijing, is a Singaporean singer-songwriter and actress.

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Memory

Memory is the faculty of the mind by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.

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Mnemonic

A mnemonic (the first "m" is silent) device, or memory device, is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval (remembering) in the human memory.

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Okinawa Prefecture

is the southernmost prefecture of Japan.

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Solomon Shereshevsky

Solomon Veniaminovich Shereshevsky (Соломон Вениаминович Шерешевский; 1886 – 1 May 1958), also known simply as 'Ш' ('Sh'), 'S.', or Luria's S was a Russian journalist and mnemonist active in the 1920s.

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Synesthesia

Synesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.

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Tadanobu Asano

, better known by his stage name, is a Japanese actor and musician.

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Tony Rayns

Antony Rayns (born 1948) is a British writer, commentator, film festival programmer and screenwriter.

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Un Certain Regard

Un Certain Regard is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection.

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1999 Cannes Film Festival

The 52nd Cannes Film Festival was held from 12 to 23 May 1999.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Away_with_Words

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