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Goodbye, Dragon Inn 2003
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn is a film about hauntings, missed connections, and main character energy. It is about the residues of Japanese colonialism; the ephemeral highs of cruising; the precarity of the filmmaking and distribution; the work of maintenance amid disability and debility.
As a filmmaker more interested in the abject ruins of Taipei than the spectacle of global urbanization, Tsai compels his viewers to wonder who exactly is the ghost, who exactly is haunting. Is it the Japanese tourist who…Translated from by -
The Juniper Tree 1990
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Juniper Tree is about magic. Two sisters, Katla and Margit, have fled their village after their mother, a witch, is stoned and burned at the stake. Katla, the older sister, saves them from perpetual displacement and exile when she beds and weds a widowed man, Johan--much to the displeasure of Johan's son, Jonas. As such, the film is not just about magic, but is also about the impulse to recreate the patriarchal family structure, in order to satisfy basic needs…
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