The Wayward Cloud (HKIFF48)
Genre
SPECIAL PROGRAMME
Release Date
8 Apr 2024 (Mon)
Category
III (HK), ---(Macau)
Running Time
115 Minutes
Language
Mandarin
Subtitle
Chinese and English
Director
Tsai Ming-Liang
Cast
Chen Shiang-Chyi, Lee Kang-Sheng, Lu Yi-Ching
Synopsis
Living a dry and lonely life in drought-stricken Taipei, she spends her time scavenging for water, and he tries to take a bath in the rooftop water tank after a day of porn acting. If life gives them watermelons, make juice and have pulpy sex with them? Injected with deliberately anachronistic and camp musical numbers, Tsai’s tale of love, drought, and desperation mixes sexual frankness and surreal minimalism with aesthetic crudity in an exploration of his characters’ disconnected, existential malaise. Enigmatic and confrontational, this rom-com provokes with its unsettled sensibility and naked reality.
Living a dry and lonely life in drought-stricken Taipei, she spends her time scavenging for water, and he tries to take a bath in the rooftop water tank after a day of porn acting. If life gives them watermelons, make juice and have pulpy sex with them? Injected with deliberately anachronistic and camp musical numbers, Tsai’s tale of love, drought, and desperation mixes sexual frankness and surreal minimalism with aesthetic crudity in an exploration of his characters’ disconnected, existential malaise. Enigmatic and confrontational, this rom-com provokes with its unsettled sensibility and naked reality.
