Ni Nei Pien Chin Tien
Tsai Ming-Liang
Hsiao Kang sells watches in the streets of Taipai. A few days after his father's death, he meets a young woman, Shiang-Chyi, who leaves for Paris the following day. Hsiao Kang, troubled by his mother's behavior as she waits for her husband's spirit to return, takes refuge in thinking about the young woman, and changes all the watches and clocks in Taipai to Paris time in an attempt to draw closer to her...
With : Lee Kang-Sheng, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Lu Yi-Ching, Miao Tien, Cecilia Yip, Chen Chao-Jung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, David Ganansia
Screenplay : Tsai Ming-Liang, Yang Pi-Ying
Image : Benoît Delhomme
Direction artistique : Yip Kam Tim
Sound : Du Tuu-Chin, Chen Sheng-Chang
Screenplay : Tsai Ming-Liang, Yang Pi-Ying
Image : Benoît Delhomme
Direction artistique : Yip Kam Tim
Sound : Du Tuu-Chin, Chen Sheng-Chang
Production : Arena Films, Homegreen Films
Distribution: Diaphana Distribution
Distribution: Diaphana Distribution
The Taiwanese filmmaker Ming-Liang Tsai was born in 1957. he received international recognition with his second film, Vive l'amour, which won the Leone d'oro at the 1994 Venice Film Festival. He directed The River (1997), The Hole (1998) and Good Bye Dragon Inn in 2004. In What time is it over there?, Ming-Liang Tsai pays tribute to François Truffaut. Beyond the passion he displays for the French filmmaker, he shares something with him, that of having his own Jean-Pierre Léaud: his film double, in Lee Kang-Sheng, who has acted in all of his films since the beginning, since Rebels of the Neon God. "I met Hsiao Kang (Lee Kang-Sheng's nickname) in 1991.My films are also his. (...) When he's in front of the camera, he doesn't act, he "exists", and that simple existence moves me to no end." Screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, the film brings together these two actors, Jean-Pierre Léaud and Lee Kang-Sheng, integrating two scenes from Truffaut's first long feature film. "The 400 Blows is my favorite film." (Tsai Ming-Liang)