The Abandoned (2022 film)

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

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
Release dates
  • October 22, 2022 (2022-10-22) (London East Asia)
  • November 5, 2022 (2022-11-05) (Taipei Golden Horse)
Running time
128 minutes[1]
CountryTaiwan
LanguagesMandarin
Thai

Premise

On New Year's Eve, a female corpse washed up on the shore stops Wu Jie, the police officer, when she is ready to kill herself. What looks like an accident is proved to be a dead migrant worker without her heart and a finger. It is obviously a murder. However, they can't get any more clues from the dead body. In the meantime, the police get an anonymous call, which complicates the case. Wu Jie concludes that whoever abandoned the body isn't 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. Lin is seen as the prime suspect of the serial murders.

— LEAFF[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 5th.[5]

Awards and nominations
Awards Category Recipient Result Ref.
59th Golden Horse AwardsBest New DirectorTseng Ying-tingNominated[6]
Best Art DirectionYeh Tzu-weiNominated
Best Makeup & Costume DesignLore Shih and Chang Fu-chenNominated
Best Action ChoreographyHung Shih-haoNominated
Best Sound EffectsR.T Kao, Tsai Doit and Kenny ChengNominated
FIPRESCI PrizeThe AbandonedNominated

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. "張鈞甯新作《查無此心》成遺珠 阮經天落馬". tw.news.yahoo.com (in Chinese). 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. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
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