Mahjong (Yang, 1996): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 8.30pm
This film is part of the Edward Yang season at BFI Southbank. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
Edward Yang’s angriest film (1996) follows various gangsters, hustlers,
jet-setters, and western expatriates in contemporary Taipei, focusing in
particular on the disappearance of a tycoon who owes $100 million to
the local mob and his grown son, who wants to find him. A high-energy
mosaic about the way we live, especially during economic boom
conditions, with as much emphasis on sexual behavior as on business
tensions, this builds to a climax of shocking violence before resolving
itself into a poignant love story; the emotional and generic gear
changes are part of what’s so exciting and reckless about it. In some
ways it’s a loose remake of Yang’s previous feature, A Confucian Confusion, but it succeeds even more in capturing the tenor of our times.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) are extracts from the film.
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