Tag: Taiwanese Cinema

Taipei Story

Taipei Story (1985): A City in Purgatory

What Antonioni managed to depict with ‘L’avventura’ and the succeeding two films in his ‘Alienation’ trilogy was how the physical world can violently impose itself on individuals. Not nature, but man-made structures.…

Missing Johnny [2018]: ‘NYAFF’ Review

Missing Johnny [2018]: Longing love in an Urban Jungle While it is incredibly hard to find love, it is even harder to sustain it in the chaos of an urban city. The directorial…