Moonlight on the River

synopsis

The lyrical farewell letter was addressed by Tsai to Simon Field, who had just stepped down as director of the Rotterdam Film Festival after eight years. The Tamsui watercourse, where Tsai shot his film The River (1997), which was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Berlinale, had dried up. All that remains is an impression, a wasteland and a stray dog as a nostalgic shadow of old feelings.

biography

Tsai Ming-liang (1957) is a Malaysian native who lives and works in Taiwan. Together with Ang Lee and Hou Hsiao-hsien, he is a leading representative of the Taiwanese New Wave. His work has features of slow cinema, conceptual art and performance art and deals with themes of loneliness, time and memory. His second feature, Vive L'Amour (1994), won the Golden Lion at Venice, The River (1997) won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, and The Wayward Cloud (2005) competed there.

more about film

director:	Tsai Ming-liang
producer:	Tsai Ming-liang