The Wayward Cloud (2005)
Directed by Tsai Ming-liang
Hsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket.
2 connections found
View:
2 connections, in both directions
What critics compared The Wayward Cloud to
Is it an inability to jibe with this new maturity—I have been a son, after all, while I have not been a father—or the old story of the auteurist enthusiast thrown the moment that their favorite varies from an accustomed formula, which I can well remember coloring the receptions of such films as Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Millennium Mambo (2001), Claire Denis’s Trouble Every Day (2001), and Tsai Ming-liang’s The Wayward Cloud (2005)?
Their paths eventually cross, with disastrous/funny results, but the budding Tsai is mostly interested in finding the right mix between long take tableaux and some broad hook, like the vision of a mega-drought that takes up the porny 2005 salvo “The Wayward Cloud.”