I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
Thu, Apr 19 thru
Sun, Apr 22 2007
YBCA Screening Room
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Deeply Personal
TWO SPECIAL THEATRICAL ENGAGEMENTS
Our friends at Strand Releasing have made these two films available to YBCA. They are perhaps the most important Asian films of the year, and our screenings will be their only theatrical engagements in San Francisco. Do not miss the chance to see these films as they are meant to be seen, projected in a theater on 35mm film.
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
by Tsai Ming-Liang (2006, 115 min, 35mm)
Thu, Apr 19–Sat, Apr 21, 7 & 9 pm; Sun, Apr 22, 4 & 7 pm
$8 regular, $6 seniors, students & teachers
$6 YBCA Members
In this new masterpiece from the master of absurd minimalism, Tsai Ming-Liang creates his most emotionally overwhelming film yet. After being robbed and attacked one night in Kuala Lumpur, a homeless Chinese man is rescued and taken in by some Bangladeshi workers. One of them lets him sleep beside him on an old mattress that he found on the street. Meanwhile, a waitress at a coffee shop burns with lust, even as she dispassionately cares for a paralyzed man. As an unbearable humidity descends on the city, an unlikely tale of dreams, loneliness, intense sexuality and healing emerges. These men and this woman and the decrepit mattress lose their way in the haze, but somehow find one another. With ravishing color and uncanny attention to texture and mood, Tsai casts a spell quite unlike anything else in world cinema today.
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