The Wayward Cloud
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Director: Tsai Ming-liang
2005 / 114min / 35mm
Never an artist to stay in one place for long, Tsai followed what had been perhaps his most austere film to-date, 2003’s eulogistic Goodbye, Dragon Inn, with this trashy-glammy borderline pornographic provocation, filled with strikingly staged musical set pieces and inspired acts of desperate deviancy. Lee Kang-sheng returns in the role of Hsiao-kang, now working as a porn actor, reunited with his missed connection from Tsai’s 2001 What Time is it There?, genuine feeling struggling to flourish in a landscape of cold, commodified desire. Boasts the most memorable uses of a watermelon of the many in Tsai’s films, and musical interludes evoking both Busby Berkeley and Kander and Ebb, the latter in Lu Yi-ching’s jaw-dropping “Spider Woman” number.
Imported 35mm print from Taiwan, courtesy of Homegreen Films
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