When a young street vendor with a grim home life meets a woman on her way to Paris, they forge an instant connection. He changes all the clocks in Taipei to French time; as he watches François Truffaut’s “Les 400 Coups,” she has a strange encounter with its now-aging star, Jean-Pierre Leaud.Read More »
Yi-Ching Lu
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Ming-liang Tsai – Ni na bian ji dian AKA What Time is it There? (2001)
2001-2010ArthouseDramaMing-liang TsaiTaiwan -
Ming-liang Tsai – Tian bian yi duo yun AKA The Wayward Cloud [+Extras] (2005)
2001-2010DramaFranceMing-liang TsaiQuote:
Hsiao-Kang, now working as a pornographic actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket.Read More » -
Ming-liang Tsai – He liu AKA The River (1997)
1991-2000DramaMing-liang TsaiRomanceTaiwanQuote:
An unemployed young man named Hsiao-Kang (Lee Kang-sheng) passes idle time at a local Taipei mall when he encounters an old friend (Chen Shiang-chyi) on the opposite escalator. With time on his hands, he agrees to accompany her back to the location shoot where she is working as a production assistant for a film. At the site, the director is displeased with the unrealistic appearance of a mannequin intended to represent a dead body floating on the river, and asks the aimless Hsiao-Kang to act as a stand-in for the shot.Read More »