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Stray Dogs

Tsai Ming-liang

Taiwan, France

2013, 138'

Genre

DRAMA

Recommended Age

16 years

VO. Chinese

ST. French

With

Kang-sheng Lee, Kuei-Mei Yang

In collaboration with the Ciné-club of the Geneva University

With the support of the Taiwanese Cultural Centre in Paris and the Geneva Office of the Taipei Cultural and Economic Delegation

In this classic of Taiwanese cinema, iconic director Tsai Ming-liang exposes the precarious living conditions on the outskirts of major cities through the story of a homeless father and his two children struggling to survive.

Tipped about ten years ago as potentially being Tsai Ming-liang’s final film (fortunately, that wasn’t the case), Stray Dogs has proven to be one of the filmmaker’s most radical works due to its minimalism and rigor. A father spends his days in Taipei working as a sandwich board man in exchange for a meager stipend that allows him to provide for his two children, who roam the streets in search of free food. One evening, he decides to take them on a trip. A leading figure of New Taiwanese Cinema, Tsai Ming-liang once again teams up with his frequent collaborator actor Lee Kang-sheng, to deliver a haunting epic, a masterpiece of austere beauty. Grand Jury Prize at the 70th Venice Film Festival in 2013.

Damien Brodard

Direction

Tsai Ming-liang

Screenplay

Peng Fei Song, Tsai Ming-liang, Cheng-yu Tung

Image

Pen-Jung Liao, Ching-Hsin Lu, Woon-Chong Shong

Editing

Chen-Ching Lei

Production

Procirep-Angoa, Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image, Homegreen Films, House on Fire, JBA Production

With

Shiang-chyi Chen, Kang-sheng Lee, Yi Cheng Lee, Yi Chieh Lee, Yi-ching Lu, Jin-kai Wu, Kuei-Mei Yang