Good Bye, Dragon Inn
1,098
Drama
Set almost entirely in a crumbling movie theater on its final night, acclaimed filmmaker Tsai Ming-Liang ("What Time Is It There?") crafts an elegant and tender valentine to the pleasures of moviegoing and the death of a cinematic age. Run by a lonely female ticket clerk (Chen Shiang-Chyi) and a young projectionist (Lee Kang-Sheng), the theater shows King Hu's 1967 martial arts epic "Dragon Inn" before darkening its screen forever. A ... [+]
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United States | Village Voice | "A movie of elegant understatement and considerable formal intelligence." | POS |
United States | Chicago Tribune | "A bizarre minimalist epic that will either transport or infuriate, it's defiantly, exquisitely eccentric." | POS |
United States | Chicago Tribune | "A bizarre minimalist epic that will either transport or infuriate, it's defiantly, exquisitely eccentric." | POS |
United States | Variety | "This feels like short film material stretched exasperatingly thin but nonetheless casts a certain sad spell, graced by moments of droll observational humor." | POS |
United States | San Francisco Chronicle | "An idiosyncratic, oddball movie that is funny and moody." | POS |
Spain | FilmAffinity | According to director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 'the best film of the last 125 years.' | POS |
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