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A group of young adults, from different cultures and social backgrounds, meet during a shared summer in the southeast of France and embark on a on romantic adventure together. Naively idealistic and largely inept both in his dealings with women and in any job, Antoine clumsily courts Christine while working for a private detective agency.

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Drama 88 mins Director: Delphine Lehericey. Documentary 89 mins Director: David Dufresne. As anger and resentment grows in the face of social inequalities during the Yellow Vests movement in France, many citizen-led protests are being repressed with ever-increasing police violence. The lack of human communication takes on a literal form in The Wayward Cloud ; there is a distinct scarcity of dialogues, which is a staple of his brand of slow cinema.

Static shots are coupled with wordless actions for most of the runtime, be that in the form of watermelon sex or eating watermelon, and everything in-between. Forming a…. Far more than a mood piece, this one has a bit more It's not that there's necessarily more happening here, but what is happening is laden with more direct symbolism and, by extension, active commentary. When the water runs out, so does its life-giving power - its purity - and so the world turns to something seedier the esteemed watermelon, in its most unforgettable role since Hausu , standing in for what I imagine are a great many things, on only a few of which I have a grasp.

Sadly, that initial review is permanently lost along with the rest of that year's Cannes blog for Nerve. Not really "improved"—I just needed to rewatch the entire film with foreknowledge of its bombshell of an ending. Having done so, I now feel comfortable declaring it Tsai's best film, not to mention a bolder and more devastating quasi-sequel than Seeing his familiar tropes employed in this hardcore context is as bracing an experience as I've had this year; I staggered out of it at Cannes, and I staggered out of it again this afternoon.

Where can Tsai possibly go from here? Letterboxd is an independent service created by a small team, and we rely mostly on the support of our members to maintain our site and apps. Where to watch. Director Tsai Ming-liang. Tsai Ming-liang. Chan Sing-Cheong. Liao Pen-Jung. Timmy Yip. Tien-chueh Lee. Genres comedy drama romance.

Believe it or not, Tsai goes even further here into the horrors of body invasion, using the world of pornography as a way to explore various types of social exploitation. Interspersed with the nasty sex, masturbation, and watermelon engorging water is short yet melons are apparently bountiful are a series of increasingly absurd lip-synched musical sequences, the first involving Lee Kang-sheng transforming into a melancholy mer-man caterwauling at the moon; the final outfitting Lee with a huge penis hat as he maniacally dances around a grungy bathroom with a bevy of Busby Berkeley-esque pink-bikini-clad girls in inverted scarlet bucket-hats and clutching blue toilet plungers.

If the method to all this madness seems a little hard to decipher, then the final 20 minutes make for a terrifying crystallization. The mild courting between Lee and Chen finally intersects with the sexual exploitation going on upstairs.