28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

25. 10.–3. 11. 2024
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Madame Butterfly
Madame Butterfly

Madame Butterfly

Tsai Ming-liang / France, Italy / 2008 / Czech Premiere / 35 min.


synopsis

The heroine of Puccini's tragic opera, set in contemporary Kuala Lumpur, is a woman in distress. Brought there by a con man who pretended to be in love, she now has no money to go home. An observational social romance about being alone in the middle of a crowd, Tsai's first film shot on digital camera appeared in the 2009 Ji.hlava IDFF programme.

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: Vincent Wang

Info

director:Tsai Ming-liang
original title:Hu die fu ren
country:France, Italy
year:2008
running time:35 min.

Film at festival

premiere type:Czech Premiere
festival edition:2024
sekece:Tribute: Tsai Ming-liang
language:Taiwanese
subtitles:English
colour:Colour


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Screening time

Thursday 31. 10. 2024, 22:00

Kino Dukla – Reform


Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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