Plot
Tsai interrupted his pre-production for The River to make this pioneering documentary for Taiwan's nascent AIDS-awareness campaign. Ignoring instructions to 'play down the gay angle', he centres the film on his own very candid conversations with two HIV+ young men. Sadly the identities of the interviewees have to be concealed, and so the freewheeling camerawork focuses most often on Tsai himself; but the sense of rapport between the director and his 'new friends' is palpable and very moving, even to Western viewers already only too familiar with these issues.
Writer | N/A |
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Director | Tsai Ming-liang |
Actor | Tsai Ming-liang, Lee Kang-sheng, Pearlly Chua |
Country | Taiwan |
Production | N/A |