With a pronounced Baroque palette and his usual astonishing use of light, picture looks ravishing -- individual scenes make a deeper impact than the characters themselves.
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone(黑眼圈)
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Malaysia, China, Taiwan · 2006
1h 58m
Director Tsai Ming-liang
Starring Lee Kang-Sheng, Norman Atun, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Pearlly Chua
Genre Drama, Romance
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After a day laborer is badly beaten, a young man takes him in and nurses him back to health. A waitress living in the loft above cares for a paralyzed man. A film with very little conversation, dominated rather by sounds of daily life and love.
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The New York Times by A.O. Scott
Mr. Tsai's films are held together internally, and connected one to another, by an elusive, insistent logic that is easier to recognize than to describe. But once you do start to recognize it, each new movie offers passage to an exotic place that feels, uncannily, like home.
Tsai finds great beauty in streets of Kuala Lumpur particularly at night, making this gorgeous film one that should be seen on a large screen in the total darkness of a theater.
Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten
Tsai’s drama is something like a mixture of Robert Bresson and R.W. Fassbinder, as God’s bedraggled souls struggle with the desires of the damned, and nobody wants to go into that good night alone.
The film ends so beautifully that it's easy to forgive the dead passages that preceded it and hope it carries over into his next movie.
The movie is a block of paper that, when Tsai's finished with it, becomes a chain of snowflakes. Loneliness doesn't often get such a gorgeously ornate tribute.
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