Film
I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
8 pm, Friday, September 14, 2007
7:43 pm, Wednesday, September 19, 2007
4:15 pm, Thursday, September 20, 2007
5 pm, Saturday, September 22, 2007
Remis Auditorium
I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone by Tsai Ming-Liang (Malaysia, 2006, 115 min.). A master of absurd minimalism, Tsai Ming-Liang leaves Taiwan behind and sets this film in his native Malaysia. In this new, multiethnic and multilingual setting of Kuala Lumpur, we find Tsai’s spectral muse, Lee Kang-Sheng, wordlessly trysting with not one but three equally laconic consorts. While all of the auteur’s signatures are here—endless running water, contagious disease, grime, muteness, sex, and song—they are expanded and diversified to such a degree that one could call this eighth feature his most saturated film. After a beating by swindlers, silent Hsiao-Kang (Lee) is carried by a group of Bangladeshi men back to their rundown abode, where he is nursed back to health by Rawang (Norman Bin Atun). Finding himself sharing a musty old mattress with his rescuer, a recovering Hsiao-Kang leaves the house to explore. Soon a noxious fog descends on the city, while a radio’s chatter serves as a kind of subtext to surreal events. Description adapted from Toronto International Film Festival. In Taiwanese and Malay with English subtitles. Director of Media Studies at Emerson College, Professor Shujen Wang will be introducing the film.
MFA members, seniors, and students $8; general admission $9.
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