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Director

Tsai Ming-liang

Malaysia · Kuching · b. 1957

The poet of stasis and desire, where nothing happens and everything aches. His cinema moves at the speed of longing — long takes of empty spaces, bodies suspended in time, love as a kind of sickness that never breaks the surface.

Thematic context drawn from Senses of Cinema. Read the full critical essay →