My New Friends
1995•56m•5.5•Released
DocumentaryTV Movie
Tsai interrupted his pre-production for The River to make this pioneering documentary for Taiwan's nascent AIDS-awareness campaign. Ignoring instructions to 'play down the gay angle', he centres the film on his own very candid conversations with two HIV+ young men. Sadly the identities of the interviewees have to be concealed, and so the freewheeling camerawork focuses most often on Tsai himself; but the sense of rapport between the director and his 'new friends' is palpable and very moving, even to Western viewers already only too familiar with these issues.
Director
Tsai Ming-liang
Languages
Mandarin
Cast
Tsai Ming-liang
Himself
Lee Kang-sheng
Pearlly Chua
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