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Dir/scr: Tsai Ming-Liang.Fr-Tai. 2005. 111mins.Taiwan auteur TsaiMing-Liang revisits all his favourite themes in The Wayward Cloud, hiseighth feature. There s his water obsession - here figured in a nationwidewater shortage, which leads to a run on mineral water and watermelons. There shis exploration of lonely characters lost in a big but strangely empty city.There s the ironic homage to Chinese and Taiwanese culture, both historic bamboo screens, Chiang Kai-Shek and pop-modern. What is new in The WaywardCloud is how sex - a marginal activity in Tsai s previous outings - is nowthe main focus of the film; though it does nothing to dispel the isolation anddetachment that envelop the characters like bubblewrap.Also new is the feeling thatTsai is beginning to par
stanley italy ody himself. And while this makes for more laughs, ornervous giggles, than his films generally provoke, it also has the effect, inthe end, of suggesting that those yearning, held images of lost people thatturned on a generation of cineastes to the director s work may have been nomore than mannerisms.Like Tsai s previous films, GoodbyeDragon Inn and What Time Is It There , The Wayward Cloud willplay most strongly in territories like France with a strong arthouse sector anda small but muscular Tsai fanbase, heartened by its Silv
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UK sales agent Jinga Films has added Lawrence Goughs Salvage to its Cannes slate.Gough, who also wrote the script, makes his directorial debut with the horror project starring Neve McIntosh and Shaun Dooley.Northwest Vision And Media is producing with Digital Departures, the Liverpool Culture Company and BBC Films.A mother fights to save her daughter after a shipping container washes ashore, releasing its toxic cargo in a suburban neighborhood. Salvage will have its world premiere at the Edinburgh Internationl Film Festival.TopicsCannes MarketSalesUK/Ireland No comments Related articles
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