Tsai Ming Liang

Tsai Ming Liang is born in Kuchin, Malaisia in 1957. At 20, he movend to Taipei, Taiwan, to Study Drama and Cinema. He directed some movies for the Taiwan Television, and his first cinema feature is Rebel of the Neon God, in 1992. This moovie is an austere vision on urban decay, alienation, boredom. The regression is visible in many ways : presence of water, sentiments are lost, intimacy does not exist...

Vive l'amour, 1994, is awarded with the golden Lion. The loneliness in urban scenery here is present as the form of an empty appartment, where three people will move, for different reasons, unaware of the other's presence first. The Hole, in 1998, is a strange musical, in a dying future. A mysterious disease make people to act like cockroaches. The city was abandonned by all but some defiant isolated people. It's raining, a storm is visible from any window and water is invading the building. A plumber dig a hole in the ground of an appartement, which become the center of the life of its owner, watching his neighbourg, and being obsessed by her. In 2006, I don't want to sleep alone.takes place in Kuala lumpur, and shows the meeting of a homeless, an immigrant worker and a waitress. The strange triangle makes a erotic and comical movie.

# 1992 : Les Rebelles du dieu néon (Ch'ing shaonien na cha)
# 1994 : Vive l'amour (Aiqing wansui)
# 1997 : La Rivière (He liu)
# 1998 : The Hole (Dong)
# 2001 : Fish, Underground
# 2001 : A Conversation with God
# 2001 : Et là-bas, quelle heure est-il ? (Ni neibian jidian)
# 2002 : Le Pont n'est plus là (Tianqiao bu jianle)
# 2002 : The Skywalk is Gone
# 2003 : Good Bye, Dragon Inn (Bu san)
# 2004 : Welcome to São Paulo (Bem-Vindo a São Paulo)
# 2005 : La Saveur de la pastèque (Tian bian yi duo yun)
# 2006 : I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Hei yan quan)

Ressources

Web :

http://www.filmref.com/directors/dirpages/tsai.html

http://www.evene.fr/celebre/biographie/tsai-ming-liang-29570.php