The partnership between the director Tsai Min-liang and the actor Lee Kang-sheng represents one of the great collaborations in the history of cinema, comparable to Scorsese and De Niro, Fassbinder and Hanna Schygulla, or Bergman and Liv Ullman. Tsai never made a film without Lee – and doesn’t intend to. One afternoon, the pair sat by a window and talked. Tsai talks about his growing fear of dying and his loss of interest in a romantic life. Lee is less melancholy in describes himself as a man of few desires. A moving gift to cinephiles and Tsai fans. Venice and Toronto 2015.
Tsai Ming-liang
Born in Malaysia in 1957. He moved to Taiwan at the age of 20 to study cinema and theatre at the Chinese Culture University. He gained attention in the cinematic community when he won the Gold Lion in Venice 1994, for Vive L’Amour. This was followed by The River (1997), Silver Bear at Berlin; The Hole (1998), FIPRESCI award in Cannes; The Wayward Cloud (2005), FIPRESCI award in Berlin; and Stray Dogs (2013), Grand Jury Prize in Venice.
