The film looks like an exercise in casualness. An exercise in narrating as if there is no narration. The (candid) camera follows a woman who wants to cross a busy road. Another woman, with a heavy suitcase, is trying to do the same thing. Before the two have reached the other side, this subtle fictional element seems to have been entirely assimilated into a documentary observation. In the end, the fiction re-emerges from the documentary urban river, but by then the woman has already gone on her way.
- Director
- Tsai Ming-liang
- Premiere
- European premiere
- Countries of production
- Taiwan, France
- Year
- 2002
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2003
- Length
- 23'
- Medium
- 35mm
- Original title
- Tien chao bu jien le
- Language
- Mandarin
- Producers
- Homegreen Films Co., Frederic Papon, Oud - Studio National des arts Contemporains Le Fresnoy
- Sales
- Homegreen Films Co.