In Claire Denis’ stunning and deeply personal debut feature, the eight-year-old daughter of a French bureaucrat gradually awakens to the racial, social, and sexual tensions that surround her in 1950s Cameroon.
“...not only the most pop movie the great Taiwanese filmmaker has ever made but…among the most astonishingly beautiful”—The New York Times
Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s neon-splashed reverie is a dreamlike drift through the night world of early 2000s Taipei. From the year 2011, the wayward Vicky (Shu Qi), a bar hostess caught between a jealous and possessive boyfriend (Chun-hao Tuan) and a kindly gangster (Jack Kao), looks back on her life 10 years earlier. This memory piece is rendered by Hou in a narcotic haze of trance-inducing techno, sumptuous slo-mo, and iridescent imagery, made all the more ravishing by cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bing.
“...not only the most pop movie the great Taiwanese filmmaker has ever made but…among the most astonishingly beautiful”—The New York Times
UPCOMING Screenings
RUNNING TIME
119min
VENUE
FORMAT
DCP
LANGUAGE
In English, Japanese, and Mandarin with English subtitles
TICKET INFORMATION
General Admission: $16
Members: $8
Leadership support for
BAM Access Programs provided by
the Jerome L. Greene Foundation
Leadership support for
BAM Film provided by
the Ford Foundation and
The Thompson Family Foundation
