Rizi

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Kang lives alone in a big house. Through a glass façade, he looks out onto the treetops lashed by wind and rain. He feels a strange pain of unknown origin which he can hardly bear and which grips his whole body. Non lives in a small apartment in Bangkok where he methodically prepares traditional dishes from his native village. When Kang meets Non in a hotel room, the two men share each other's loneliness. Tsai Ming-Liang’s new work concludes the exploration he began in Journey to the West. The images are emanations of slowness and frailty, embodied by the actor Lee Kang-Sheng, with whom the filmmaker has collaborated for years. After making a personal confession in Afternoon, in Rizi (Days) he silently observes the encounter between two men who forget the dark side of reality for one night, and perhaps even get close to the truth, before returning to their daily lives. As always, when Tsai Ming-Liang trains his camera on faces and lights, everything is possible and the images naturally have multiple meanings.

details

  • Runtime

    127 min
  • Country

    Taiwan
  • Year of Presentation

    2020
  • Year of Production

    2019
  • Director

    Tsai Ming-Liang
  • Cast

    Lee Kang-Sheng, Anong Houngheuangsy
  • Production Company

    Homegreens Films
  • Berlinale Section

    Competition
  • Berlinale Category

    Feature Film
  • Teddy Award Winner

    Teddy Jury Award

Biography Tsai Ming-Liang

Born in Kuching, Malaysia in 1957. He won the Golden Lion at Venice in 1994 for Vive l’amour. His films screened in the Berlinale in 1993, 1995, 1997 and 2014, with The River winning a Silver Bear in 1997. His 2009 film Visage was co-produced by the Louvre in Paris, while Stray Dogs won the Grand Prize of the Jury at Venice. He has also presented his video installations at the Venice and Shanghai biennales and is a playwright and theatre director. His work has featured in art festivals in Brussels, Vienna and Taipei.

Filmography Tsai Ming-Liang

1992 Qingshaonian Nuozha (Rebels of the Neon God) | 1994 Ai Qing Wan Sui (Vive l’amour) | 1997 He Liu (The River) | 1998 Dong (The Hole) | 2001 Ni Na Bian Ji Dian (What Time Is It There?) | 2002 The Skywalk Is Gone | 2003 Bu San (Goodbye, Dragon Inn) | 2005 Tian bian yi duo yun (The Wayward Cloud) | 2006 Hei Yan Quan (I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone) | 2009 Lian (Visage) | 2013 Jao You (Stray Dogs) | 2014 Xi You (Journey to the West) | 2015 Afternoon | 2017 Jia Zai Lanre Si (The Deserted) | 2018 Ni De Lian (Your Face) | 2018 Light | 2019 Rizi (Days) | 2022 He Chu (Where) | 2024 Wu Suo Zhu (Abiding Nowhere)