Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien reunites with his Millennium Mambo and Three Times star Shu Qi for the sublime The Assassin. This historical wuxia finds Shu’s enigmatic woman knight returning from exile and torn between love and duty. An elliptical, enchanting experience.
Anhand von Interviews mit Hirokazu Koreeda, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wang Bing, Kiyoshi Kurosawa und Jia Zhangke bietet dieses Porträt einen umfassenden Einblick in das bahnbrechende Neue Taiwanesische Kino. Ein unverzichtbares Dokument über eines der bedeutendsten Kapitel im Kino des 20. Jahrhunderts.
Hou Hsiao-hsein’s Daughter of the Nile stars pop musician Yang Lin as the center of a story revealing the shimmering ephemera of youth culture in 1980s globalized Taipei. Delicately crafted, Hou’s majestic family drama finds beauty, and profundity, in the stuff of everyday life.
