I Don't Want to Sleep Alone - a film by Tsian Ming-Liang April 19, 2007

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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