Celebrated Malaysian-Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang sat down with Variety on the eve of receiving the Locarno Film Festival Career Award. The award is only the latest in a series of prizes from…
Career Award. The award is only the latest in a series of prizes from major European festivals the art-house maverick has received – from the 1994 Golden Lion from Venice for “Vive L’Amour” to the Silver Bear that “The River” won in Berlin in 1997.“This is very special for me,” Tsai says. “I’m very happy, especially for my films which are not easy to see. Coming here and receiving a reward is a very big encouragement for me. Especially these festivals.
His 2003 film “Goodbye, Dragon Inn,” a haunting portrait of a crumbling and closing movie theater, feels like a prescient statement. Is that how it feels now? That he’s saying goodbye to cinema? “The best place to see a feature film or even a short film is still in the movie theater but movie theaters have become too commercial. It’s always been like this. They’ve always been very commercial. Maybe, the concept of the movie theater should change, rather than the theaters close.
No one has ever accused Tsai of being in a hurry. In fact, as leading examples of what has been termed “slow cinema,” his films are challenging and some critics argue punitive to audiences with their long takes – in 2013’s “Stray Dogs” shots last for tens of minutes – but in person he is warm, amiable and humorous. It’s a sly humor that can also be seen in his films.
His nostalgia brings us back to Locarno and more generally Europe. “Ever since I was a kid, until I went to college in Taiwan, Europe was for me as a movie-goer a new window. In a way, I feel like I followed the French New Wave into the cinema world. All of these films made by the New Wave directors are very personal films, unlike the more conventional films coming out of Hollywood, and each of these directors shot the movie like they are writing a book.
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