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Aguaespejo

30Apr13

A elegiac valediction to the cinema and a meditation on desire...God, an exquisite almost Tatiesque sense of delicate visual comedy and an uncanny sense of exactly where to put his camera!

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Yuki Aditya

18Mar13

The tale of China and Taiwan told through a bun. The now disabled Mother China chasing the rebellious Taiwanese boy. The appearance of the Japanese guy is funny though.

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animalcalls

1Mar13

Just... wow My first Tsai Ming-liang film, and I can promise you I am going to seek out every one of his films now.

KolorRian

13Feb13

the unspeakable love story is so beautiful

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We try to lay hands on what seems ours: the ticket-girl limps out of the theater, alone and alive, but cinema has its revenge by ending; meanwhile we are forced to live and produce something in some measure worth living for. This isn't a film, it's an elegy in image and instance/Of course this is a film; it's an elegy in image and instance.

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Emily O

14Oct12

ain't no party like a tsai ming-liang party, because a tsai ming-liang party leaves you shaking in a pool of your own tears, contemplating the emptiness of your existence

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cpc, wistful_emoticon, Neither/Nor, InsertOzuReferencehere, Falderal, DT

Bitė

11Jul12

he was trying to smoke, more and more - i was smoking, more and more !

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Arsaib

11Jul12

This is probably the Tsai film I love the most :)

DT

14Jun12

A real-time depiction of the last 90 minutes in the life of a run-down Taipei cinema house, evoking an overarching emptiness as it uses the image of film itself as a catalyst to accentuate a lonesome reality for its players. A rigid exercise in its static discourse, its lasting sense of detachment does limit the capacity for cathartic investment, if not for artistic and intellectual engagement, which the film does hold value in. A melancholy but stimulating introduction to Tsai.

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my nigga totoro

17Apr12

Oddly enough I discovered this film while paging through the reviews of some doofus on Amazon, "most pretentious movie ever" caught my eye.

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daniel v

15Apr12

This was the first Tsai film I ever saw, by accident at a film festival. It remains the most magical experience I've ever had in a movie theater, even if today I don't even think the film is in his Top 5.

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Kongtai

30Apr11

I think every shooting here is too long so impressed a bit bored, but besides that Tsai can make a scene look mystical and haunted

Falderal

6Feb11

Love is a small gesture ignored.

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MuteChild

15Oct10

Makasih banyak van ...... udah ngerekomendasi ni film ....... akhirnya bisa tidur juga setelah seminggu berasa kayak zombie >_< totally 5 out of 5

le tigre

20Sep10

Life becomes eerily slow as the ghosts of a cinematic age wander through the walls of an old Thai cinema. "Nobody remembers us anymore".

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DT

6Jun12

Taiwanese, not Thai. But yes.
le tigre

20Jun12

Haha, cheers. My 2010 self was quite ignorant indeed.

Joel

19May10

There is something captivating about this movie. If you are prepared for it. I knew the first line of dialogue would come in around the 45 minute mark, so I prepared to just relax. Something calming about this film. My only complaint is that compared to some other, so called, contemplative cinema this one's premise was perhaps one I wasn't so much captivated by.

Zachary W

15May10

Seeing this film for me was a very odd experience, as it a lamentation and an elegy for the classic cinema-going experience. I, on the other hand, have had few of those experiences, seeing most of my films at home or in mostly empty little theatres. "Goodbye, Dragon Inn" did affect me, but I'm not sure if it was in the way Tsai meant to.

bad_education

9Apr10

There is some magic about film.

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13Feb10

Now I know why Brilliante Mendoza's Serbis felt so redundant, Tsai made a much better film 5 years before it.

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Zachary Phillip Brailsford

6Feb10

Not going to lie, I think this film is an indictment of the Taiwanese people, who Tsai spoke about in an interview when he mentioned that Taiwanese people don't want to see good movies; hence why very few people in the film are actually paying any attention to the film in front of them. Savvy