Directed by Jui-Yuan TSAO, the closing film of Culinary Cinema Film & Food programme in Berlin International Film Festival

People once said, love is like flavour; once you have a taste of it, you will never forget. Wa’er’s Father runs a well-known vegetarian restaurant in Hangzhou. Wa'er herself is a successful manager of a luxurious health resort. Her boyfriend, Zhang Quan, is a computer game designer from Taipei, who loves Wa'er but spends too much time in the virtual world. Zhang Quan’s auntie, Apple, raised him like her own son. She’s squandering her life in alcohol and nightclubs due to loneliness. In order to help his auntie get her life back on track, Zhang Quan takes her back to Hangzhou, which is also her hometown. Apple’s arrival causes quite a stir in Zhang Quan and Wa’er’s lives. After one incident, the tension between Wa'er and Zhang Quan explodes. The father is secretly planning on closing the restaurant due to his illness. Wa'er and her sister Xiao Lan decide to help their father fight the disease and keep the restaurant. Apple finds out the answer to the secret that she has kept for over fifty years. Because of the restaurant, the relationships of the two generations intertwines and bonds again.

《飲食男女-好遠又好近》結合了美食、愛情、親情三大元素，將三個世代截然不同的愛情觀詮釋得淋漓盡致，片中白蘋跳的探戈，被男舞伴狠狠甩出去又拉回來的舞步，象徵了男女之間若即若離、失而復得的微妙情感，正是片名「好遠又好近」的寓意。本片更呈現蔬食料理純粹之美，宛如七彩調色盤的食材，加上巧奪天工的廚藝，讓整部片堪稱是一場視覺和心靈的豐盛饗宴。