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 |
Screening time
Thursday 31. 10. 2024, 22:00Kino Dukla – Reform
Film at festival
| premiere type: | Czech Premiere |
| festival edition: | 2024 |
| section: | Tribute: Tsai Ming-liang |
| language: | Taiwanese |
| subtitles: | English |
| colour: | Colour |
Info
| director: | Tsai Ming-liang |
| original title: | Hu die fu ren |
| country: | France, Italy |
| year: | 2008 |
| running time: | 35 min. |
