Vive L'Amour
Directed by Tsai Ming-liang
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1h 57m
Directed by Tsai Ming-liang | 118 mins | 1994
Tsai’s second feature is a masterful evocation of urban loneliness and longing, quietly devastating even in its forays into something like slowed-down slapstick. A love triangle takes shape when three people—including a repressed funerary salesman played by the director’s muse and collaborator, Lee Kang-sheng—come to occupy a vacant high-rise apartment, each unbeknownst to the others. Winner of the Golden Lion at Venice 1994.
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The Hole
Directed by Tsai Ming-liang | 89 mins | 1999
It’s the close of the millennium and Taipei has emptied out with the onset of a mysterious virus, but Lee Kang-sheng and Yang Kuei-mei lag behind among the ruins, where maybe a last chance at communication lies through a breach between their apartments...
