I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

Amazing. Maybe my favorite Tsai film, certainly his most hopeful ending. Beautiful photography.

there is this bit where he is nursing him back to health by trying to attach a plastic bag full of lemonade on his forehead where a poster that says "i love you" is hanging over them

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Star Rating: ★★★★1/2

Hard to get in to, both due to it lacking Tsai's usual humour and also due to how undefined and vague the characters are compared to his usual films. These aren't necessarily bad things, but they do mean I'll have to see this film again before being sure of how much I like it (and the closing 15 minutes show that this film very much deserves to be seen again).

"Despite his films' frequently static compositions, Tsai's cinema flows ever forward with ambiguous, multivalent purpose." - Keith Uhlich

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There's so much I felt I didn't understand. I think my score will rise with subsequent viewings. Wonderful Soundtrack.

I thought that this might be the movie that would make me start to lose interest in Tsai, but I loved it. Again, he's exploring clumsy attempts at attaining intimacy, but somehow it seems fresh every time. He always makes this act of reaching out to someone both heartbreaking and heartwarming. It's one of his more straightforward works, without the gimmickyness of Wayward Cloud or the impenetrability of Goodbye Dragon Inn. There are some haunting images, and some wonderful use of music.