Days

(Rizi)

In Conversation

  • Iggy Cortez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.

featuring

Lee Kang-Sheng, Anong Houngheuangsy,

A two-hour film composed of only forty-six shots and no main dialogue, Days fittingly follows the solitary lives of two men in separate countries: a middle-aged Taiwanese man battling neck pain (Lee Kang-sheng) and a young Lao immigrant in Thailand. Scenes from their quiet days come and go, until a commercial encounter finally unites them. As always, Tsai Ming-liang sketches the beauty and nobility of lives lived in silence, though with Days, viewers also mark the passing of time in Lee’s now-weathered, still-mesmerizing face, a constant in Tsai’s films for nearly thirty years. “A ravishing, wordless story of urban loneliness” (Screen Daily). 

Jason Sanders
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Tsai Ming-liang
Cinematographer
  • Chang Jhong-yuan
Language
  • No dialogue
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 127 mins
Source
  • Grasshopper Film

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