There are not many people who can penatrate the human soul so gentle with such a deep understanding as Tsai. Quite the genuis that guy.
Those of you who live in the UK - Tsai Ming-Liang is coming over next week for a FREE screening (of Madame Butterfly and a new short) plus a talk/Q&A, to receive the Golden Owl Award from the 24th Leeds International Film Festival. More info: http://www.leedsfilm.com/film/an-audience-with-tsai-ming-liang-with-madam-butterfly/
Master Tsai is a film genius and a true artist. his films are the most corporeally imaginative films I've experienced. a kind of film that will grow into you, like the liquids inside your body. constantly diverging, expanding and always inspiring and touching somewhere deeply. I met him last year when FACE was screening in Taiwan. He has so much heart into his own films even still today. One of the sweetest man and the deepest film artist. I think Tsai has created what film is conventionally capable of offering. He has took it on another level. His dimension.