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Bookmark this pageVive l'Amour (1994)
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A lot of city life flows through Tsai's masterly follow-up to Rebels of the Neon God, but our attention is focused on just three people. Mei, a woman pushing middle age, lives alone, sells real estate and longs to be loved. Hsiao Kang has left home and sells burial lockers in a new designer cemetery; possibly gay, he longs to love someone. And the cocky Ah Jung sometimes sells clothes at the night market; he neither loves anyone, nor feels any need to be loved. Watching Tsai manoeuvre these people into proximity with each other so that their lives may be changed is a large part of the film's pleasure, but it doesn't eclipse the sheer joy of discovering gradually where the film's own heart lies. Funny and heartbreakingly sad.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
Producer: Hsu Li-kong
Cast: Yang Kuei-mei, Chen Chao-jung, Lee Kang-sheng full cast
Duration: 118 mins
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