Hard Light Cinema

🐌 Part 2/4 of our Slow Sundays series

Tsai Ming-liang, a veteran Taiwanese slow cinema director known for his quiet, observational depictions of interpersonal alienation and malaise, is in peak form with his sophomore classic Vive L’Amour. The film follows salesman Hsiao-kang and real estate agent May Lin, whose listless lives begin to intersect in strange ways when Hsiao-kang steals a key to a luxury apartment May Lin has listed for sale. 

— Tommy Jenkins, Hard Light Cinema