The Wayward Cloud

Description: The most audacious film to date from visionary director Tsai Ming liang The Wayward Cloud is about a porn actor and the museum tour guide who enters into a strange relationship with him unaware of his profession Hsiao kang Lee Kang sheng is the same alienated youth whose chance encounter with Shiang chyi Chen Shiang chyi provided the spark that fueled Tsai s earlier films Once again these two lost souls cross paths he now works as an actor in no budget porn films and she wanders around Taipei hoarding bottles of water because of a serious drought In fact the government is recommending that people eat watermelons to hydrate themselves This fruit sets in motion a perverse and often hilarious symbolic theme throughout much of the film As in his earlier film The Hole SFIFF 1999 Tsai adds campy musical numbers into the narrative These sequences play against the raw sex scenes creating a bizarre existential chaos The filmmaker has created a perfectly realized alternative universe in his ongoing exploration of sex bodies and loneliness His stationary camera perfectly illustrates the isolation and exploitation the characters are trapped in yet the film is as funny as it is emotionally tortured Tsai s characters are indeed wayward clouds drifting through life without purpose in a world without water And prepare yourself for the film s unbelievable final scene no spoilers here which manages to be both weirdly erotic and profoundly disturbing For mature audiences only

Country:  Taiwanese

Released: 2005

Genre: Drama

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