The Wayward Cloud
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4K RESTORATION
Overview
One of Tsai Ming-liang’s (Goodbye Dragon Inn) boldest works, now restored in 4K, The Wayward Cloud is a vibrant comedy that straddles slow lovesick drama, extravagant musical and explicit sex. As Taipei endures a water shortage and a watermelon boom on some of the hottest days of summer, bored and lonely Shiang-chyi (Chen Shiang-chyi) reunites by chance with her old acquaintance Hsiao-kang (Lee Kang-sheng), unaware he now works as pornography actor.
Why You Should See This Film
Winner of the Silver Bear at Berlin, The Wayward Cloud is easily one of our favourite works from the great Taiwanese director for the way he manages to successfully blend slow cinema, classic musical and erotic film to create a hilarious, dejected, lustful, confronting and ultimately moving portrait of urban alienation. Although the film revisits characters from Tsai Ming-liang’s What Time is it There? and The Skywalk is Gone, no prior viewing is required to appreciate these mute characters in their liminal zones, their multipurpose watermelons nor their surreal outbursts of vintage Taiwanese pop hits.
Audience note: contains strong sex scenes and a depiction of sexual violence.
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