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The Wayward Cloud (2005) [MultiSubs]

Posted By: MirrorsMaker
Date: 9 Apr 2024 05:07:52
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The Wayward Cloud (2005) [MultiSubs]

The Wayward Cloud (2005)
DVDRip | MKV | 720x384 | x264 @ 1732 Kbps | 109 min | 1,49 Gb
Audio: Mandarin (官话) AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subs: English, Français, Italiano, Português-Br, Español, Čeština, Ελληνικά, Bahasa Indonesia, Polski, Română, Serbian, Slovenčina, Slovenščina, Türkçe, tiếng Việt
Genre: Romance, Drama, Erotic

Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Writer: Ming-liang Tsai
Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Yi-Ching Lu

Metaphor, allegory. There's a drought in Taiwan. Watermelon are abundant and become juice, food, something to share with a guest, and an aphrodisiac. In a large building of flats, Hsiao-Kang and Shiang-chyi's paths cross; she knew him when he sold watches, now he acts in pornographic films. She scavenges for plastic water bottles. He bathes in the building's cistern. Fantasy song and dance numbers punctuate the characters' nearly aimless pursuits: she has lost her keys and he helps her find them; he naps in a park, she watches; he smokes on the floor beneath her kitchen table while she sits. His film-making continues. Can they connect?

IMDB - 9 wins

I saw the film in a screening in the Jerusalem film festival in Israel. Tsai came with lee kang-sheng his actor and together they introduced the film to us Israeli film buffs. The film was a blast.

Tsai said many people leave before the end of the film, it certainly happened, but us who managed to enter the special "mode" tsai requires from his audience enjoyed a modern masterpiece! To me it felt like a mixture of tati's "playtime" and oshima's "in the realm of the senses", to witch you must add obscure eastern musical numbers. It was breathtaking, funny, disturbing, sad and romantic.

It's true, the film shows men and women in degrading situations - but that is the main issue of the film and it deals with it with great compassion. The image of kang-sheng sitting in the street after the shooting of a porn scene, to discover ants crawling on his chest and forehead says it all.

Thank you very much Tsai Ming-liang.
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