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The Wayward Cloud

Fruity, juicy and spicy.

2005 · 1h 54m · N/A Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by Tsai Ming-liang

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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.

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All reviews
76%
Tomatometer
Fresh

The film's meandering, surrealist-kissed, early scenes dance nicely in time with his urban protagonist's disconnected, existential malaise.

Wally Hammond, Time Out
Rotten

The Wayward Cloud offers one plausible moral: If life hands you watermelons, make love to them.

A.O. Scott, New York Times
Fresh

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.

V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Rotten

Tsai's emptied-out aesthetic has never felt so empty, his mannerisms so pointlessly mannered.

Nathan Lee, Village Voice
Fresh

A witty, insightful and typically idiosyncratic continuation of Tsai's earlier features.

Geoff Andrew, Time Out

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