WED JUL 31, 2024 7:30 PM VIVE L’AMOUR / I DON’T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE $10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission) Aero Theatre | Q&A with filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang and actor Lee Kang-sheng 30th Anniversary of VIVE L’AMOUR ‘Tsai Ming-liang: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’ This program is made possible by the Spotlight Taiwan grant from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of China (Taiwan), with additional support provided by the Taiwan Academy of the Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles. Add to Cart
ABOUT THE FILMS: VIVE L’AMOUR, 1994, Dir. Tsai Ming-liang, 118 Min, Film Movement, Taiwan In Mandarin with English subtitles. VIVE L’AMOUR follows three characters unknowingly sharing a supposedly empty Taipei apartment. The beautiful realtor May Lin (Yang Kuei-mei) brings her lover Ah-jung (Chen Chao-jung) to a vacant unit she has on the market, unaware that it is secretly being occupied by the suicidal funeral salesman Hsiao-kang (Lee Kang-sheng). The three cross paths in a series of precisely staged, tragicomic erotic encounters, but despite their physical proximity, they find themselves no closer to a personal connection. FORMAT: DCP I DON’T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE, 2006, Dir. Tsai Ming-liang, 115 Min, Home Green Films, Taiwan/Malaysia In Mandarin, Malay and Bengali with English subtitles. Rawang, an immigrant from Bangladesh living in awful conditions, takes pity on a Chinese man, Hsiao-kang, who is beaten up and left in the street. Rawang lovingly nurses him on a mattress he found. When he is almost healed, Hsiao-kang meets the waitress Chyi. His love for Rawang is put to the test. FORMAT: DCP