Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang’s remarkable body of work is collected here with the first 4 films of his career.

Tsai’s films are deliberately paced, cutting together long takes he unabashedly requires each viewer to slow down and patiently experience another’s life. This often results in a surprising emotional depth and connection with his characters. These four very varied films spanning everything from surreal, futuristic comedy musicals in The Hole to the heartbreaking romantic ‘ménages a trois’ in Vive l’Amour charts the fascinating development of his reoccurring themes, motifs and obsessions. These obsessions have featured in almost all of his films: water, the observation of humans in their private and personal rituals.
Tsai Ming-liang’s fresh modern voice, his unabashed sexual frankness and graceful style won him plaudits throughout the international festival circuit and with his contemporaries Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Yang brought about a new wave of Taiwanese cinema that would quickly become regarded as modern classics.

REBELS OF THE NEON GOD
VIVE L’AMOUR
THE RIVER
THE HOLE