#Bales2023FilmChallenge March 24: Roommates or flatmates on #FlatmatesDay

May Lin (楊貴媚 / Kuei-Mei Yang) is a real estate agent who meets up with a man (陳昭榮 / Chao-jung Chen) in the bare, too sterile flat she brokers. Another man, Hsiao-kang (李康生 / Kang-sheng Lee) who took the key of the same dwellings for his own cause, decides to settle in. In 蔡明亮 / Ming-liang Tsai's 愛情萬歲 [Ai qing wan sui / Vive L'Amour] (TW, 1994) the apartment serves not only as a space where events take place, but locks and guides the flatmates through their impulses.

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My #Stencil of legendary filmmaker #TsaiMingLiang.

#TsaiMingLiang on loneliness, alienation, & absurdity of life: https://youtu.be/lXx5wiXrDRs

"[In] 6th grade, I don’t know why but there were classmates who didn’t like me. They made everyone else in class stop talking to me for a year. When I looked back later...I didn’t feel especially sad. I felt I had my own world...

...I quite enjoy that feeling [of loneliness]. When a person is lonely, the person becomes real, real to be oneself."

The films of Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang can vary quite a bit. There is the absurd "The Wayward Cloud", the quiet "Vive L'Amour", "Visage" set in the Louvre. But regardless, there is one constant element: Lee Kang-sheng. Watching Tsai's films chronologically is a slow observation of the gradual and unstoppable progression of time in ourselves.

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Minimal dialog, great use of large spaces and framing, Tsai Ming-Liang's Goodbye Dragon Inn is a mesmerizing experience. Taking place almost exclusively in a grand, dilapidated movie theater, this atmospheric, moody, nostalgia driven ode to cinema doesn't sacrifice Tsai's usual theme - isolation and disconnectedness and a bit of eroticism. Exquisite. Certainly one of the most beautifully shot films. #goodbyedragoninn #tsaimingliang #tiwanesecinema

Wayward Cloud (2005) - Tsai Ming-Liang
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Beautiful poster for Tsai Ming-liang's short film "No No Sleep", which is part of his Walker-series.

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Tsai Ming-liang's "Goodbye, Dragon Inn" (2003) is beautiful and haunting. It's perhaps a good time to rewatch the film given the current crisis mode cinema seems to be in.

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🧵 "Over the past thirty years, Tsai and Lee have created a body of work unlike any other in world #cinema, capturing #urban ennui and desire amid the ethereal, neon-lit dreamscapes of #Taipei and other Asian metropolises."

Dennis Zhou on #TsaiMingliang 蔡明亮 @newyorker: https://newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/in-taiwans-mountains-a-director-works-to-slow-life-down #TaiwanCinema @art_film @sino_cinema @chineseliterature

Tsai Ming-Liang, du 25 nov au 2 janvier merveilles & masterclasse à #Beaubourg #TsaiMingLiang https://www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/magazine/article/tsai-ming-liang-infatigable-arpenteur-du-cinema?utm_source=INFORMATION&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=2211%2B-%2BCI%2B-%2BTsai%2BMing-Liang%2B%252301%2B-%2BANNONCE

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