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Tsai Ming Liang

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Tsai Ming-liang (蔡明亮), born in Kuching, Malaysia (1957), is a Taiwanese film director known for austere, slow-cinema works and a long collaboration with actor Lee Kang-sheng. His notable films include Vive L'Amour and Goodbye, Dragon Inn.

Vive L'Amour won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival (1994) as noted in reviews; Stray Dogs is noted in reviews as a Venice prizewinner (2013). Recurring elements in his filmography include long takes, themes of solitude, and the recurring character/actor Lee Kang-sheng (Hsiao-Kang).

DeBaser reviews praise Tsai Ming-liang's austere, slow-cinema style and recurring collaboration with Lee Kang-sheng. Key films discussed include Vive L'Amour, Goodbye, Dragon Inn and Stray Dogs. Critics highlight themes of solitude, silence and formal restraint.

For:arthouse cinema fans, students of film, readers interested in slow/meditative cinema

 

The final cry encapsulates the momentary bewilderment of the soul when one begins to sense the spurts of real life.

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Tsai Ming Liang manages to create cinema with nothingness. Beauty with emptiness.

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Cinema, the old cinema is dead, and this film is the funeral march in its honor:

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There is this sacred waiting for the miracle to happen, when the appearance of Jean-Pierre Léaud makes us feel that we are already the miracle.

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