What Time Is It There?
Ming-Liang Tsai / TW, FR, 2001 / 116 min.
Young watch vendor Hsiao Kang from Taipei is infatuated with a lovely young girl. She leaves for Paris while he has to stay in Taipei to attend his father’s funeral. Tsai Ming-liang’s fifth feature film is a lightly absurdist, tragi-comic reflection on love, mourning and cinema’s function as a time machine.
Eye screens all films by the Taiwanese filmmaker to accompany Tsai”s VR project The Deserted.
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Director
Ming-Liang Tsai
Production year
2001
Country
TW, FR
Original title
Ni neibian jidian
Length
116 min.
Language
Mandarin Chinese, French, English
Subtitles
NLD
Format
35mm
Part of
Tsai Ming-liang
Eye Filmmuseum presents a retrospective of all of the Taiwanese master’s films to accompany Tsai Ming-liang’s first VR production The Deserted, from Rebels of the Neon God (1992) to Your Face (2018).
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