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Wayward Cloud (The)

Country: Taiwan, Language: Chinese, 114 mins

Original Title

Tian bian yi duo yun
  • Director: Ming-liang Tsai
  • Writer: Ming-liang Tsai
  • Producer: Bruno Pésery; Vincent Wang

CGiii Comment

Meant as a comment on pornography? Or on drought?

From a director who has, strangely, succeeded in conning the critics.

This is utter and absolutely the epitome of art-house crap.

If you like Tsai's work then you too have been conned and you are conning yourself.

His films are nothing other than indulgent, pretentious and monotonous without ever trying to imagine that people might think he is a talentless rogue - which he is.

A practical lesson on why high-brow critics are low-life arse-lickers.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Metaphor, allegory. There's a drought in Taiwan. Watermelon are abundant and become juice, food, something to share with a guest, and an aphrodisiac. In a large building of flats, Hsiao-Kang and Shiang-chyi's paths cross; she knew him when he sold watches, now he acts in pornographic films. She scavenges for plastic water bottles. He bathes in the building's cistern. Fantasy song and dance numbers punctuate the characters' nearly aimless pursuits: she has lost her keys and he helps her find them; he naps in a park, she watches; he smokes on the floor beneath her kitchen table while she sits. His film-making continues. Can they connect?

Cast & Characters

Kang-sheng Lee as Hsiao-Kang;
Shiang-chyi Chen as Shiang-chyi;
Yi-Ching Lu as Mother;
Kuei-Mei Yang as Taiwanese Porn Actress;
Sumomo Yozakura as Japanese Porn Star;
Huan-Wen Hsiao;
Hui-Xun Lin;
Kuo-Xuan Jao;
Shu-Mei Hung; David Yang;
Huan-Wen Wu;
Yu-Wei Chang;
Xun-You Chou;
Lee-Hsing Huang;
Tian-Fu Hsu