Country:Taiwan

Director:Tsai Ming-Liang

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Summary:

This is now a signature work for the incomparable Tsai Ming-Liang and some time has passed since it appeared but it is certainly a touching and unforgettable parallel universe which is found, most appropriately, in an aging cinema. A Japanese tourist takes refuge from a storm inside a once-popular movie theatre, a decrepit old barn of a cinema that is screening a martial arts classic, King Hu's Dragon Inn. Even with the rain bucketing down outside, it doesn't pull much of an audience -- and some of those who have turned up are less interested in the movie than in the possibility of meeting a stranger in the dark. But several of the cinema patrons never will leave. Tsai reminds us that no place is as haunted as an old movie theatre.

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