Drama
Taiwanese (一一)
2000 · Directed by Edward Yang · 174 min
Over nearly three hours, a middle-class family in Taipei moves through ordinary weeks: a wedding, a hospital bedside, business worries, a daughter's first romance, a boy with a camera. The tone is gentle, observant and quietly searching, close to a novel in how it lets lives accumulate.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining work of the Taiwanese New Cinema tradition and of turn-of-the-millennium art cinema, it shows how a modern city drama can be both intimate family portrait and a wide reflection on urban life.
Watch with intention
Watch how the film lets you see each person from outside and slightly apart, as if the camera respects what they cannot say.
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