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"Viva l'Amour"
1996
Directed by Tsai Ming-Liang

Considered by critics as reminiscent of the best of Michelangelo Antonioni (Blow Up), this "wonderfully evocative" (New York Times) film stars Yan Kuei-Mei and Chen Chao-Jung (both from the hit comedy Eat Drink Man Woman) as May, a chic and seductive real estate agent, and Ah-jong, a street merchant, and their encounters in one of the thousands of vacant, anonymous apartments that fill Taipei, Taiwan. After a chance meeting, the couple use the apartment for their impulsive sexual liaisons, while a shy young gay man hides in the same apartment and spies on the couple, creating a bizarre love triangle. Taiwanese with English subtitles. "A tour de force...tender, stylish" (Amy Taubin, The Village Voice). Taiwan. 118 minutes.