Still Life: The Films of Tsai Ming-liang

Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-liang's body of work is characterised by silence, stillness and dislocation, with narratives that unfold slowly and urban settings that face deterioration. In these cinematic landscapes, time passes and decay is inevitable – but fatalistic beauty teems in the wreckage, writes Anthony Carew.

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