The Terrorizers (Wang, 1986): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 8.50pm
This digital restoration, also being screened on April 19th, 25th and 28th, is part of the Taiwan New Cinema season at BFI Southbank. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
Edward Yang’s evocative and deliberately ambiguous third feature (1986)
pivots on a chance encounter between a rebellious Eurasian girl and a
novelist and housewife who decides to leave her husband, a lab
technician. As Taiwanese film critic Edmund Wong has noted, the film
offers “a refreshing look at Yang’s theme of urban melancholy and
self-discovery”—a preoccupation running through Yang’s early work that
often evokes some of Antonioni’s poetry, atmosphere, and feeling for
modernity. Well worth checking out.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is an extract.
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