settimaMar 22, 2023

洞 ​[Dóng / The Hole] (Tsai Ming-liang, 1998)

Mar

22

National Sing It Out Day

The man upstairs and the woman upstairs, both dressed in that perfectly cool, 1960s Chinese style, break out in song in their crumbling apartment block The woman's singing voice is legendary Grace Chang's. DP: Pen-Jung Liao.

Someone breaks into song on National Sing Out Day (USA)

 

In a #plague-ridden Taiwan, it rains relentlessly. The #rain and a #virus forces people to retreat. In Hsiao Kang's crumbling building, a plumber inadvertently punches a hole from his floor to the unnamed woman's below. While she, another victim of the #disease, holes up in her apartment they struck up a strange detached relationship.

 

Between the endless downpour and frantic #food hoarding, in her heart a #musical sings.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalSingItOutDay #TsaiMingLiang #KueiMeiYang #KangShengLee #GraceChang #GeLan #PenJungLiao #drama #fantasy #musical #outbreak #dystopia #Taiwan #France #1990s ★★★★☆

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#Bales2023FilmChallenge March 22: Someone breaks into song on #NationalSingItOutDay

In #蔡明亮 / Ming-liang Tsai's 洞 [Dóng / The Hole] (1998), set in a #plague-ridden #Taiwan it's raining relentlessly. The #rain and a #virus forces people to retreat. In Hsiao Kang's crumbling building, a plumber inadvertently punches a hole from his floor to the unnamed woman's below. While she, another victim of the #disease, holes up in her apartment they struck up a strange detached relationship. Between endless rain and frantic #food hoarding, in her heart a #musical sings.

#film #cinema #MingLiangTsai #LeeKangSheng #YangKueiMei #SciFi #romance #musical #cockroaches #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/

Bales2023FilmChallenge

The kids in the Fediverse are playing a game. Find the rules at the clubhouse and play along! Coming up in April: 21 Fiddler Playing in Movie 22 Lots of Rain in Movie 23 Scene in a Laboratory 24 Someone Screaming in Movie 25 License Plate Seen in Movie 26 Main Actor/Actress is Australian 27 Morse Code Heard in Movie 28 Comedy You Can Watch With Kids 29 Someone Looking Through a Telescope 30 Someone with a Wild Hairdo