Special Screenings

Taiwan / 2018 / 76 min.
Director: TSAI Ming-liang

The faces of people emerge from out of the darkness. Some are solemnly quiet while some are talkative. One even begins to fall asleep in front of the camera. The deep wrinkles etched on each of their faces symbolically indicate the lifetime they have lived.... World premiering at the Venice Film Festival, TSAI Ming-liang's latest film photographs the faces of 12 people in extreme close-ups. Other than TSAI's go-to actor LEE Kang-sheng, who appears at the end, no other actors are used for the film. Setting himself apart from commercial films, TSAI has continued to produce minimalistic works and this masterpiece is likely to be called the truest essence of the director. The music was composed by SAKAMOTO Ryuichi. For TSAI, this marks the first time in many years he has utitlized a background score. After his sophomore "Vive L'Amour" he had only used existing songs in his films.