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The Wayward Cloud
2005 1h 54m Tsai Ming-liang

The Wayward Cloud

★ 6.5 IMDb
Drama Comedy
Hsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket.
Writer Tsai Ming-liang
Cast Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Lu Yi-ching, Yang Kuei-mei
DP Liao Pen-jung
Essays and Criticism
On this film
The Wayward Cloud by Michael Koresky, Reverse Shot "The Wayward Cloud" Histoire d'Eau By Andrei Plakhov by Andrei Plakhov, FIPRESCI
On Tsai Ming-liang
Tsai Ming-liang by Jeff Reichert, Reverse Shot Master Shots: Tsai Ming-liang's Late Digital Period by Blake Williams, Cinema Scope Painterly Poetics: An Interview with Tsai Ming-liang and Lee Kang-sheng by Declan McGrath, Cineaste Tsai Ming-Liang and Lee Kang-Sheng on a joint career in filmmaking by Sophie Monks Kaufman, Little White Lies
In conversation with other films
...And Beguiling: The Reconstructed Musicals of Terence Davies and Tsai Ming-liang by Bart Versteirt, photogénie
Where to Watch

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Awards & Festivals
Nominated International Submission to the Academy Awards
Won Silver Bear Jury Prize
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