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<\/a>\nThis \u201cgroup portrait of four laddish adolescents on the razzle in Kaohsiung as they approach the onset of adult life\u201d (Tony Rayns) is Hou Hsiao-hsien\u2019s fourth film, but he has long considered it to be the real beginning of his career as a moviemaker. \u201cI had very intense feelings at the time,\u201d Hou told Sam Ho, \u201cand I think the film has an intense energy. An artist\u2019s early work might be lacking in craft but, at the same time, be very powerful, very direct. Later, when I wanted to return to that initial intensity, I no longer could.\u201d In the tradition of Fellini\u2019s I Vitelloni, The Boys from Fengkuei is a deeply personal look back at the director\u2019s own adolescence\u2014at the boredom of living in the middle of nowhere and the overwhelming need to get up and move, and get out and away to the big city. A glorious young-man\u2019s film, and the first great work of the Taiwanese New Wave. Restored by the Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que Royale de Belgique in collaboration with Hou Hsiao-hsien and The Film Foundation\u2019s World Cinema Project.<\/p>\n