The River

Tsai Ming-liang
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April 14 - 20, 2023

Following the travails of a young man (Lee Kang-sheng) and his family, Tsai Ming-liang’s third feature is at once overtly metaphorical and deeply committed to the ebb and flow of everyday life: a film about individuals in crisis that builds patiently to a devastating emotional climax.

DIRECTOR
Tsai Ming-liang
YEAR
1997
COUNTRY
Taiwan
RUNTIME
115 minutes
LANGUAGE
Mandarin with English subtitles
START DATE
March 3, 2013

After spontaneously agreeing to play a drowned corpse in a film, a young man (Lee Kang-sheng) develops chronic, inexplicable neck pain. Meanwhile, his mother embarks on an affair with a pornographer, his father spends free evenings pursuing chance sexual encounters at a local bathhouse, and the family’s shared apartment keeps suffering from mysterious plumbing issues… Tsai Ming-liang’s third feature is at once overtly metaphorical and deeply committed to the ebb and flow of everyday life: a film about individuals in crisis that builds patiently to a devastating emotional climax.

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