Starry Starry Night (film)
Starry Starry Night is a 2011 Taiwanese fantasy drama film based on an illustrated novel by Taiwanese author Jimmy Liao. The film is directed by director Tom Lin, and it stars actress Xu Jiao as Xiao Mei. In addition, actor Lin Huimin will play the role of Xiao Jie.
Xiao Mei used to live with her grandparents up in the mountains. When she later moves to the city to live with her parents, she finds the place cold and distant as compared to the village she once lived in. She longs for a simple and carefree life, and the experience of lying down on a field at night and looking up at the starry night above. Her parents are experiencing workrelated stress and are having marriage problems.One day, Xiao Mei was attracted to a beautiful recorder melody of a Christmas carol being played by her neighbor. She later learns that the neighbor is called Xiao Jie, a problematic child who is a new student in her school. Xiao Mei starts to be attracted to Xiao Jie, who is always getting bullied by the rest of his classmates after he was deemed cocky. The pairs friendship grows deeper after Xiao Mei saves Xiao Jie from these bullies. They decorate their classroom together for an interclass competition, and Xiao Mei takes to shoplifting for fun after seeing Xiao Jie shoplift. Xiao Mei later shares information on French art with Xiao Jie while she tries to purchase a jigsaw piece from a puzzle of Starry Starry Night to replace the one that she had lost. ........
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