The Wayward Cloud (2005) // dir. Tsai Ming-liang
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‘[While working on my first work with him] I paid a lot of attention at the time to his home situation and the circumstances he was in. After creating my first picture with him he became ill, and that illness was incorporated into the film I was making at the time. With my fifth feature, What Time is it There, the film is about a young man whose father had died, and I wanted to write about those and his feelings surrounding that. I always want to capture how feelings change over time and to capture it in Lee’s face. That’s my purpose in making films. (...)
If I hadn’t met Lee Kang-sheng, the movies I make would not be the same as they are now. I probably would have made a lot more normal movies with a lot of music and dialogue. The circumstances would have been so different. But I learned from Lee his way of life, his rhythm, which had a massive influence on me and led me to making more truthful films.’
— Tsai Ming-liang about Lee Kang-sheng for Little White Lies (Alicia Haddick interview)
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The Wayward Cloud (2005) // dir. Tsai Ming-liang
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Vive L'amour (1994) dir. Tsai Ming-liang
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Happy 66th, Tsai Ming-liang.
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