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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Bryan Walsh](https://time.com/author/bryan-walsh/) Mar 15, 2004 5:00 AM UTC by [Bryan Walsh](https://time.com/author/bryan-walsh/) Mar 15, 2004 5:00 AM UTC Ask actress Rene Liu about her _20:30:40_ co-star, co-writer and director Sylvia Chang, and she exudes a sigh that’s in equal parts admiration and exhaustion. “I think she’s a model for all of us women, but she’s too busy!” says Liu. “She’s a mother, she’s a producer, an agent, a star, singer, director, and an actress.” Chang politely protests, flashing the sunrise smile that has lit up more than 80 films during her 30-year career: “There’s always time for the things you want to do.” _20:30:40_ tells of how three women from different generations in Taipei react when faced with crises of the heart. The only Chinese movie to be selected for this year’s Berlin Film Festival, _20:30:40_ goes down like a happy-hour Cosmopolitana nice antidote to the castor oil of the typical Taiwan art-house flick. “This is not a grand story. It doesn’t have a big theme,” Chang says. “I just wanted to let the audience see how modern Chinese women are.” They are, in a word, conflicted. Fresh off the boat from a rubber plantation in Malaysia, young Xiao Jie (living anim Lee Sinjie) dreams of Mando-pop stardom, only to have her career derailed by a depressive manager (Anthony Wong, dressed like an Iron Maiden roadie) and her heart hijacked by her singing partner (Kate Yeung), who takes more than a professional interest in her. Xiang Xiang (Liu) is a jaded flight attendant with Bridget Jones problems: lots of men to date, none to come home to. And then there’s freshly divorced Lily (Chang), who gets back into the swing of the single life with gusto, only to discover that when you’re approaching middle age, you can’t outdance loneliness in a discotheque. The very modern ladies of _20:30:40_ barely intersect, but director Chang ably guides her characters to a common realization: that independence has to come before love or success. _20:30:40_ might be the only Chinese film in history to have started as a concept musical album. The three actresses happen to be label mates, and Liu thought it was time they collaborated on a CD. “Sinjie was 20, I was 30 and Sylvia was about 40,” says Liu. “So I decided the name should be _20:30:40_. While searching for a record producer, Chang hit upon the idea of making a movie of the same name that would map out the three decades she calls “a woman’s golden ages.” “I said no, no, no, that’s too big for us,” says Liu. “But Sylvia said she could take care of it.” Chang wrote her part of the story and asked Liu and Lee to sketch out narratives for their characters. But even with Chang’s track recordstarring roles in films such as _The Red Violin_, writing and directing more than 10 movies, including critical hits like 1999’s _Tempting Heart_ _20:30:40_ was a tough sell. “Women’s projects are never very hot,” she says. “People hear ‘Sylvia Chang’ and they think, ‘Ugh, women’s film.'” But Chang insisted there was an audience for a Chinese movie that didn’t show triads or flying swordsmen. With the help of $300,000 from a Taiwan government-sponsored film fund and backing from Columbia Pictures Asia, Chang was able to start filming, though she had to scale back her original concept of setting the three stories in Beijing, Taiwan and Hong Kong, instead shooting everything in Taipei. That’s where the real difficulties began. With SARS at full strength during the filming last spring, Chang had to hurry to capture a cameo spot by Tony Leung Ka-fai to avoid the quarantine measures Taiwan was about to impose on travelers from Hong Kong. When Chang wanted to shoot a scene at Taipei’s airport, officials allowed in only 50 cast and crew membersa paltry number to simulate an airport throng. “I was thinking maybe a flight would come in, and there could be people in the background,” Chang says. “But all the flights were canceled. The airport was empty.” She was forced to improvise: she had her 15 extras stride through the scene, change costumes off-camera, then come back into shot again. That’s the sort of trick three decades in the film business teaches you. Not that Chang shows her years. Effortlessly elegant in black leather pants and a purple Dior sweater, Chang looks like she could play 20, 30 or 40, evergreen in an industry where some actresses are washed up while they’re still in pigtails. Though she just hit the half-century mark last July, she demurs at the thought of a _30:40:50_. “I don’t like sequels,” Chang says. “There’s so much more I can do.” Slowing down isn’t on her list. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6646494/what-women-want/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6646494/what-women-want/"},"headline":"What Women Want","datePublished":"2004-03-15T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T16:56:36.408Z","description":"What Women Want","url":"https://time.com/archive/6646494/what-women-want/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Bryan Walsh","url":"https://time.com/author/bryan-walsh/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6646494/what-women-want/","name":"What Women Want"}}]}] ```