Tian bian yi duo yun
Directed by:
Ming-liang TsaiScreenplay:
Ming-liang TsaiCinematography:
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Set against the backdrop of the city of Tapei, a jaded adult movie star daydreams in elaborate, erotic musical fantasies. Award-winning film director, Tsai Ming-Liang weaves fascinating, colorful musical numbers into a tale of sexual voyeurism. When sexual fantasies and realities collide, the line blurs, creating an outrageous tale of obsessions. (official distributor synopsis)
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This mix of crazy comedy, eroticism and hard-to-define scenes surprisingly makes sense as a whole and, above all, has a great “anti-romantic” climax.
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Bizarre. Very bizarre. Even for Asia. But also original. Very original. Even for Asia. But Tsai’s artsy masturbation over the taste of melons didn’t appeal to me at all. The whole time I couldn’t help feeling that I was watching the cut scenes section and not at the movie itself. But at least the musical scenes hold its head above water, not letting it drown in tedious boredom. They represent if nothing else an absurdly bizarre moment of tension. But what would you expect?
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I watched The Wayward Cloud based on a recommendation and also because I like watermelons. It's just that after the opening watermelon scene, there was nothing interesting going on. Basically, it just alternates between lengthy scenes with no dialogue and erotic ones. The musical interludes, the point of which somehow escaped me, didn't appeal to me either. The ending was quite original, but I don't watch movies for the ending. 1.5 stars.
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