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12:00 pm Riverview Theater
Farewell My Concubine
3:00 pm
Flower Floating in the Sea
5:00 pm
A Queer Story
7:00 pm
Vive l'Amour
Director: Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan, 35mm, 100 min., 1996Three young strangers, two men and a woman, inadvertently share keys to the same near-vacant apartment in downtown Taipei. Director Tsai Ming-liang distills this farcical premise into an austere depiction of the insistent loneliness of urban life, where liberatory acts -- here, sneaking a kiss or rolling a melon bowling ball-like - are performed with great stealth, usually behind closed doors.
Director Tsai Ming-liang
7:00pm
The River
Director: Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan, 1997, 35mm, 115 min.The new film from acclaimed Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang, the Second Wave director of Rebels of A Neon God and Vive l'Amour. In The River, he concentrates his unmoving camera on an uncommunicative family complicated by desire, unveiling a desolate urban loneliness among the high rises, these family members cut off from the world and each other. The mother, an elevator operator, courts an affair from a pornographer. The father furtively seeks sexual contact in gay saunas. The son is recovering from an undiagnosable physical malaise.
Winner Special Jury Prize: Berlin Film Festival,1997
This film is not commercially distributed in the U.S.
Co-sponsored by Lavender Bridge of Metropolitan State University
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