The read
It runs a compact 56m.
Synopsis
Tsai interrupted his pre-production for The River to make this pioneering documentary for Taiwan's nascent AIDS-awareness campaign. Ignoring instructions to 'play down the gay angle', he centres the film on his own very candid conversations with two HIV+ young men. Sadly the identities of the interviewees have to be concealed, and so the freewheeling camerawork focuses most often on Tsai himself; but the sense of rapport between the director and his 'new friends' is palpable and very moving, even to Western viewers already only too familiar with these issues.
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
2 audience votes
Key crew
- Tsai Ming-liangDirector
Cast
- Tsai Ming-liangHimself
- Lee Kang-shengCast
- Pearlly ChuaCast
Themes
aids