Rizi (Days)

2020_Busan_A01
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2020 | 127 min

AWARDS & FESTIVAL

2020 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, 2020 London Film Festival, 2020 San Sebastián International Film Festival, 2020 New York Film Festival, 2020 Taipei Film Festival-Closing Film, 2020 Berlin International Film Festival- Teddy Jury Award

SALES CONTACT

HOMEGREEN FILMS, Claude WANG

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+886-2-2217-1028

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Under the pain of illness and treatment, Kang finds himself living the life of a drifter. He meets Non in a foreign land. They find consolation in each other before parting ways and carrying on with their days.

DIRECTOR

Born in Malaysia in 1957, TSAI Ming-liang premiered his debut feature, Rebels of the Neon God, at the Berlinale in 1992. His sophomore film, Vive L’amour (1994), won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival while The River (1996) won the Jury Award at Berlinale, thus solidifying his status as a major filmmaker. All of his feature films so far have been selected by the top three film festivals of the world while five of them have won the FRIPESCI Award. In 2009, Face became the first film to be included in the collection of the Louvre Museum’s “Le Louvre s’offre aux cineastes”.
In recent years, TSAI has also received attention from the art world, having been invited to participate in various art exhibitions and festivals, and for putting forth such aesthetic ideas as the “Hand-sculpted Cinema” and “The removal of industrial processes from art making”. In 2012, he began his “Slow Walk” series and has since completed eight films, screened at art festivals and galleries around the world. Back in Taiwan, he actively promoted the concept of “Art Museum as Cinema” and “The Author’s Intended Way of Viewing”, introducing new film-watching modes as a way to balance the overly commercialized film market.
TSAI is the most sensual, sensitive and sombre filmmaker of this generation. He sees the human body as a mysterious, malleable and vulgar machine, and seeks to strip naked the sensory functions of the human body through his work. His films often absent of narrative and dialogue and composed of slow and long takes, present life in its truest form, showing us the helplessness of humans, their desire, emptiness and loneliness. His lens, long fixated on LEE Kang-sheng, is in fact, fixated on life itself.

CREDIT

PRODUCER Claude WANG|CAST LEE Kang-sheng, Anong HOUNGHEUANGSY|PRODUCTION COMPANY HOMEGREEN FILMS