IT’S ONLY TALK (YAWARAKAI SEIKATSU)

Japan - 2005 - 35 mm. 126 min.

Director:
  RYUICHI HIROKI
Scritp: Haruhiko Arai.
Production: Studio Threc Co., Ltd y Akira Morishige.
Cast: Shinobu Terajima, Etsushi Toyokawa, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Tomorowo Taguchi, Sotoshi Tsumabuki.
Section:
  BAFF 10
Screenings:
Cinema Maldà - 25/04 - 19:30
Cinema Maldà - 01/05 - 17:00

An old cinema about to say farewell to its audience and an old martial arts film are the silent stars of a movie that takes a nostalgic look at times gone by. In the cinema, ghosts escaped from the screen (like the actors Shih Chun and Miao Tien, who nostalgically watch the film in which they featured four decades before) run across characters looking for sex in the dark. Two employees searching for, but never finding, each other. Smoke and cigarettes in the aisles filmed on the diagonal, extremely long shots and bars on the memory in a movie in which Tsai Ming-Liang, a champion of minimalism and director of such subtle films as What Time Is It There? or The Hole, explores loneliness, contemporary alienation, emotional repression and the agonising difficulty of being emotionally moved. A full-length feature that furnishes a cinematographic experience demanding its viewers’ unswerving support.

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