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- 2021
- Unrated
- Grasshopper Film
- 2 h 7 m
- 2021
- Unrated
- Grasshopper Film
- 2 h 7 m
Summary Under the pain of illness and treatment, Kang (Lee Kang-sheng) finds himself adrift. He meets Non (Anong Houngheuangsy) in a foreign land. They find consolation in each other before parting ways and carrying on with their days.
Directed By: Ming-liang Tsai
Written By: Ming-liang Tsai
- 2021
- Unrated
- Grasshopper Film
- 2 h 7 m
- 2021
- Unrated
- Grasshopper Film
- 2 h 7 m
Days
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Summary Under the pain of illness and treatment, Kang (Lee Kang-sheng) finds himself adrift. He meets Non (Anong Houngheuangsy) in a foreign land. They find consolation in each other before parting ways and carrying on with their days.
Directed By: Ming-liang Tsai
Written By: Ming-liang Tsai
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
92
100% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
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That ending, poetic and beautiful, is the chronological conclusion of Days; emotionally, it crests a few minutes earlier, as the two men go on a modest dinner “date” after their encounter.
To enjoy Days, you have commit to its earthy dream logic. It is an extraordinary movie; it is not an easy sit.
Days becomes such a resonant addition to Tsai’s exhumed body of work because the filmmaker recognizes and embraces that uncharacteristically sentimental undertow; the last 30 minutes of this (relatively short) movie reward viewers who’ve spent the previous 90 minutes searching — reaching — for a souvenir they might be able to take away from it.
Formally, Tsai’s approach is as spare as possible while still maintaining a loose sense of narrative.
In a film lasting a shade over two hours, consisting of just 46 separate shots, the undisputed emperor of Taiwanese slow cinema crafts a ravishing, wordless story of urban loneliness.
To watch Days in the context of this long-running creative partnership is to bring memories of the men, all more similar than not, that Lee has played before for Tsai; his weariness here carries the weight of a lifetime of relevant roles, almost a franchise arc of alienation and regret.
It will sound like sacrilege, but Days could be the rare case of a Tsai Ming-liang film that doesn’t ever quite connect up and one that might even benefit from some cutting back.
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Production Company
Homegreen Films,
La Lucarne,
ARTE,
Public Television Service Taiwan
Release Date Aug 13, 2021
Duration 2 h 7 m
Rating Unrated
Genres
Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Taipei Film Festival
• 3 Nominations
Golden Horse Film Festival
• 3 Nominations
