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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.

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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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