Tag: Taiwanese

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.…

Tigertail 2020 Netflix

Tigertail [2020] Netflix Review: A Poignant, low-key drama

Watch Tigertail on Netflix: Far from what you would expect from Alan Yang, given his resume is decorated with likes of comedy-drama ‘Master of None’ & satirical sitcom ‘Parks and Recreation’, “Tigertail”…

A Family Tour [2018]- ‘NYFF’ Review

‘A Family Tour’ is a lamenting outcry for injustice. It’s a subtle but a bold political statement against the authority stifling the freedom of expression. A reporter asks Yang Shu (Gong Zhe)…

Closing Time [2018]: ‘Locarno’ Review

Closing Time opens a time portal to the lyrical mundanity of quotidian characters in the stillness of the night. Highly meditative and sedately paced, Closing Time is a poetry in motion, an…