Vive l’amour

(Aiqing wansui)

In Conversation

  • Andrew F. Jones is Professor and Louis B. Agassiz Chair in Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley

awards

Winner of the Golden Lion at the 51st Venice International Film Festival

featuring

Yang Kuei-mei, Lee Kang-Sheng, Chen Chao-jung,

Three lost souls form an unlikely love triangle in Tsai Ming-liang’s Venice-winning follow-up to Rebels of the Neon God, set against an urban 1990s Taipei just starting its economic growth. A teenage crematorium employee, a real-estate agent, and a street vendor/Lothario wind up sneaking in and out of the same vacant apartment, sometimes hooking up, but often misconnecting, with the apartment itself possibly their greatest object of desire. One could even see a typical yuppie romantic comedy here somewhere, but Tsai instead burrows into all the spaces edited out of such films, where uncertainty, stillness, and sadness hide. “Vive l’amour,” indeed. 

Jason Sanders
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Tsai Ming-liang
  • Yang Pi-ying
  • Tsai Yi-chun
Cinematographer
  • Liao Pen-jung
  • Lin Ming-kuo
Language
  • Mandarin
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 118 mins
Source
  • Film Movement

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