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    Tsai Ming-liang Then and Now

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    Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive

    November 13-November 16, 2009

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    This selective retrospective unites three rarely screened works by Tsai Ming-liang (b. 1957), one of the most celebrated artists working in contemporary Asian cinema. Tsai’s first two features, Rebels of the Neon God and Vive l’Amour, and the little seen recent work, The Wayward Cloud are all shaped by Tsai’s fascination with modern urban alienation and sexual frustration. They also share their magnetic lead actor, Lee Kang-sheng who, much like Monica Vitti for Antonioni - the director to whom Tsai is frequently compared - acts as both emblem of the alienated city-dweller and as erotic figure, an object of ambiguous identification and desire. Tsai discovered the actor just as he turned from television to cinema, and Lee has acted as the filmmaker’s muse and creative partner ever since, with Tsai even attributing the slow, meditative rhythms of his films to Lee’s deliberate movements and ability to vividly embody a painful loneliness and listlessness melancholy.


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        Harvard Film Archive

        Harvard Film Archive Cinematheque
        24 Quincy Street
        Cambridge, MA 02138

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        Tickets: $9 General Admission, $7 Seniors, Harvard faculty and staff, non-Harvard students. Special events $12

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        Dates:
        November 13-November 16, 2009

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        7pm

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