"This is one of the most gorgeous and maturely composed movies you'll see this
year. I've rarely held my breath in anticipation of a director's next shot, each
being a small movie unto itself. Working with the cinematographer Liao Ben-bong,
Tsai finds a dozen amazing ways to experience a movie, like the scene where we
find our intrepid ticket-taker watching ''Dragon Inn" so close that its
projected image pours through the perforations in the screen and dots her face.
There are so many textures that are exposed in a mere decision about how near to
or far from a person to place a camera. You're reminded, in a way that only a
great movie can, that such decisions produce an inexplicable magic, and that
Tsai Ming-Liang, in addition to being a sterling director, is a superior
magician."
Wesley Morris in the
Boston Globe reviews
Goodbye, Dragon Inn, which will be screened this Friday....
Read more:
http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2004/10/29/say_hello_to_an_eerily_exquisite_movie/
More on the film series:
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/programpages/cfs.html#goodbye
