Visage

Film Information:
Year:

2009

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Director:

Tsai Ming-liang

Color:

Color

Format:

35 mm

Duration:

141 min

Cast:

  • Lee Kang-Sheng
  • Jean-Pierre Léaud
  • Laetitia Casta
  • Fanny Ardant
  • Lu Yi-Ching

Production:

  • GUIÓN: Tsai Ming-liang
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Liao Peng Jung
  • MONTAJE: Jacques Comets
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin

Contact:

  • Fortissimo Films
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  • 1013 CN Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Synopsis

The filmmaker played by Lee Kang-sheng is faced with a challenge: shooting the myth of Salome inside the Louvre Museum. But actually, it duplicates the one of Tsai Ming-liang himself, like it already happened in his other films that featured a cinema-within-cinema theme, from The River to Goodbye Dragon Inn, from What Time Is It There? to The Wayward Cloud. This time, however, the resonances are reflected just like in a never-ending mirror game, because he´s less interested in the myth of Salome than in retracing his own steps through that mythical and labyrinthine museum. And he wants to do so without showing his tradition, using his non-sublime and more prosaic reverse side as nothing but a crumbled set where the “star” and Salomé (Laetitia Casta) ­–and also Antoine and King Herod (Jean-Pierre Léaud)– will move around to add more duplicity. The shooting gets complicated when financial and personal problems converge. This includes the death of the filmmaker´s mother­, when the inevitably funereal atmosphere starts to take over both films (the one they´re making, the one we´re watching), and the musical numbers start to set a mood that intends to blow some vitality into death: that companion who settles in, waits around, and takes everything.

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