FREE MOVIE!! ARTHOUSE 101: THE NEW WAVE - VIVE L'AMOUR

Cross-Posted with LA & OC Weirdo Music & Art Forum

Yvonne B. is now the host for this event.

VIVE L'AMOUR (1994 Taiwan)
In Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles

Rotten Tomatoes gives it an 86% favorable rating!

Date: Tuesday, June 11, 7:30 PM

Venue: The Frida Cinema
305 E 4th St #100 · Santa Ana, CA

Free showing! RSVP here:
*https://thefridacinema.org/film/vive-lamour-arthouse-101-the-new-wave/*

About the film:

Movie Trailer: *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6L1R0g5Bm8&pp=ygUUdHJhaWxlciB2aXZlIGwnYW1vdXI%3D*
Our Arthouse 101: The New Wave series presents Tsai Ming-liang's masterful second feature, Vive L'amour.

Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment: May (Yang Kuei-mei), a real estate agent who uses it for her sexual affairs; Ah-jung (Chen Chao-jung), her current lover; and Hsiao-kang (Lee Kang-sheng), who's stolen the key and uses the apartment as a retreat.

A masterful and deeply influential exploration of isolation, Vive L'amour entwines insightful evocation and unexpected absurdity to further hone the vision of one of the foremost contemporary masters of slow cinema.

Continuing Tsai Ming-liang's attentive observation of urban life, Vive l'amour unfolds the theme of urban alienation through three young urbanites' search for romance and their disbelief in traditional family values in the 1990s Taipei. Tsai Ming-liang takes a bold move with plot lines that are stylistically designed to focus on only a trio of main characters, who unknowingly share an apartment in Taipei. The cinematic language of Vive l'amour is kept to an extreme minimum. Tsai Ming-liang's austere composition of dialogues with a total of less than a hundred lines throughout the film, paired with a minimalist use of background music and soundtrack, reflects the emotional loneliness and spiritual emptiness experienced by the three urbanites of Taipei.
The Frida Cinema's Art House 101: The New Wave series has been made possible with generous support from the City of Santa Ana.