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- 2007
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 55 m
- 2007
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 55 m
Summary Homeless on the streets of Kuala Lumpur, Hsiao Kang is robbed, beaten and left for dead; he is found and nursed by Rawang, an immigrant worker, who lives in the shell of a modernist building abandoned during construction. [Strand Releasing]
Directed By: Ming-liang Tsai
Written By: Ming-liang Tsai
- 2007
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 55 m
- 2007
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 55 m
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
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Summary Homeless on the streets of Kuala Lumpur, Hsiao Kang is robbed, beaten and left for dead; he is found and nursed by Rawang, an immigrant worker, who lives in the shell of a modernist building abandoned during construction. [Strand Releasing]
Directed By: Ming-liang Tsai
Written By: Ming-liang Tsai
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
78
100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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The movie is a block of paper that, when Tsai's finished with it, becomes a chain of snowflakes. Loneliness doesn't often get such a gorgeously ornate tribute.
Tsai finds great beauty in streets of Kuala Lumpur particularly at night, making this gorgeous film one that should be seen on a large screen in the total darkness of a theater.
Mr. Tsai's films are held together internally, and connected one to another, by an elusive, insistent logic that is easier to recognize than to describe. But once you do start to recognize it, each new movie offers passage to an exotic place that feels, uncannily, like home.
With a pronounced Baroque palette and his usual astonishing use of light, picture looks ravishing -- individual scenes make a deeper impact than the characters themselves.
Tsai’s drama is something like a mixture of Robert Bresson and R.W. Fassbinder, as God’s bedraggled souls struggle with the desires of the damned, and nobody wants to go into that good night alone.
The film ends so beautifully that it's easy to forgive the dead passages that preceded it and hope it carries over into his next movie.
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Awards
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Asian Film Awards
• 2 Nominations
Taipei Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
