Though the film's deliberate pace is sometimes frustrating, it casts a quietly powerful spell and the memory of its images lingers provocatively long after they've flickered into darkness.
Goodbye, Dragon Inn(不散)
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Taiwan · 2003
1h 22m
Director Tsai Ming-liang
Starring Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Miao Tien
Genre Drama
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A historic and regal theater in Taipei is screening its final film, the 1967 wuxia classic "Dragon Inn", on a dark and rainy night. Inside, the lives of the theater employees, a Japanese tourist, and even the actors from the "Dragon Inn" all intersect in unexpected ways.
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What are critics saying?
The New York Times by Dana Stevens
Has a quiet, cumulative magic, whose source is hard to identify. Its simple, meticulously composed frames are full of mystery and feeling; it's an action movie that stands perfectly still.
This feels like short film material stretched exasperatingly thin but nonetheless casts a certain sad spell, graced by moments of droll observational humor.
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
This is a funny, sad, stunningly smart movie about the end of movies, made in Tsai's inimitable, unblinking style. No movie lover should miss it.
A movie of elegant understatement and considerable formal intelligence.
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
A droll gem that celebrates movie love with feeling and deadpan humor.
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
For all its minimalism, Tsai Ming-liang's 81-minute masterpiece manages to be many things at once.
It could all be done much more efficiently, but any other approach would lose Tsai's unique mix of stone-faced comedy and dewy-eyed lyricism.
A loving tribute to cinema by Tsai Ming-liang, one of Taiwan's most accomplished and popular directors.
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