A One and a Two...

+ intro by season programmer Hyun Jin Cho

Yi Yi

Edward Yang’s second masterpiece, after A Brighter Summer Day, is a beautifully observed, wry and involving portrait of family life.

  • Director

    Edward Yang

  • With

    Wu Nien-jen, Elaine Jin, Issey Ogata, Kelly Lee

  • Taiwan 2000. 173min

  • Digital

  • Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles

Garnering Yang the Cannes Best Director prize, the final part of the filmmaker’s New Taipei trilogy ranks amongst his towering achievements. An analysis of life in contemporary Taiwan through the prism of a middle-aged businessman and his extended relations. Beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral, it’s a film of insight, empathy and compassion that deftly balances the intimate and the epic.

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