The film's meandering, surrealist-kissed, early scenes dance nicely in time with his urban protagonist's disconnected, existential malaise.
The Wayward Cloud
Fruity, juicy and spicy.
2005 · 1h 54m · N/A
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Tsai Ming-liang
Overview
Hsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket.
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
The Wayward Cloud offers one plausible moral: If life hands you watermelons, make love to them.
The Taiwanese sex musical The Way ward Cloud is notable for its bizarre uses of watermelons. I won't give you the details because my editor would just cut them out.
Tsai's emptied-out aesthetic has never felt so empty, his mannerisms so pointlessly mannered.
A witty, insightful and typically idiosyncratic continuation of Tsai's earlier features.
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