Film Forum

Taiwan, 1992
Directed by Tsai Ming-liang
Written by Tsai Ming-liang
Starring Chen Chao-jung, Jen Chang-bin, Lee Kang-sheng, Lu Yi-ching, Tien Miao
Approx. 109 min. DCP Courtesy Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute.

“Youthful disaffection never gets old, and the four alienated 20-ish Taipei residents who drift through Mr. Tsai’s artfully angled frames bear an evident kinship to the characters in Jean-Luc Godard’s BAND OF OUTSIDERS, Harmony Korine’s SPRING BREAKERS and a hundred other movies produced since World War II. They ride around the city on motorbikes, stopping to smoke cigarettes and hang out in video arcades, all-night restaurants and love hotels. They are bored, restless, antisocial and vaguely in search of some kind of intensity.” – A.O. Scott, The New York Times
 

Reviews

“One of the great modern films about big cities and the mostly
unacknowledged psychic toll of living in them.”
– Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com