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“In all of my work I deal with people who are on the fringes of society. . . . So whenever I shoot something, whenever I get close to people like those in the film, I feel very good. At the same time, I have a very strong belief that every individual is very hard to understand.” —Tsai Ming-liang

Director Tsai Ming-liang returned to his native Malaysia to craft this hypnotic consideration of what it means to care for another human being. Bangladeshi migrant worker Rawang (Norman Atung) discovers Hsiao-kang (Lee Kang-sheng), who has been beaten and left for dead on a street in Kuala Lumpur. Rawang takes the homeless man back to his modest home—a bare mattress in a half-finished apartment building—to nurse him back to health. As their relationship evolves into what A.O. Scott of The New York Times drolly but accurately calls “the world of a Walt Whitman poem,” waitress Chyi (Tsai regular Chen Shang-chyi) cares for a comatose man (also Lee Kang-sheng) while she develops a longing for Hsiao-kang after glimpsing him in the dingy coffee shop where she works. Tsai’s masterful use of light and composition are everywhere apparent in what is perhaps his most tender meditation on love, longing, and the plight of the dispossessed. (Dir.: Tsai Ming-liang, Malaysia/Taiwan, 2006, 115 min., DCP, Taiwanese, Malay, Mandarin, and Bengali with English subtitles)

Film still courtesy of Homegreen Films