One Tree Three Lives
2012 · 98 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 31 VOTES · DIR. Angie Chen
Overview
One Tree Three Lives, an intimate film on the novelist Hualing Nieh Engle, who has been a major influence on generations of writers in the Chinese Diaspora, and beyond. The director has known the author and her family since the Seventies. The film reveals a woman of unusual charisma, integrity and determination, and a person in continual exile. She is the author of 24 books. She also co-founded the International Writing Program in Iowa, USA, with her now deceased husband, the poet Paul Engle. One Tree Three Lives is also their love story.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,622 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:52 Hello, Auntie Nieh!
00:05:41 through the keyhole
00:09:06 We were so homesick
00:13:16 My father was killed by the Communist Party
00:16:30 But you look a bit Japanese
00:20:19 Open the door!
00:23:58 I recall a saying of Nietzsche's
00:28:02 she would pray to Buddha every day
00:32:35 I don't either
00:35:56 put into intense language
00:39:15 It's wonderful, he said
00:43:16 It's a quaint and peaceful town
00:47:43 For what?
00:51:01 We merely Iive in the same body.
00:55:15 mirrors the plight of the world in the twentieth century
00:59:43 I wonder why both of us
01:03:31 She was always screaming
01:07:00 When they met, they threw glasses at each other
01:09:36 She was extremely generous
01:12:42 and wanted to speak to him
01:16:20 in a mink coat
01:21:32 but the newly elected Walesa government
01:26:16 It sure is
01:31:38 She loves Paul Engle
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,622
Dialogue density16.6 lines / min
First line00:01:52
Final line01:31:38
Production Record
DirectorAngie Chen
LanguageChinese
IMDb votes31