Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Cannes

CANNES 2015: THE ASSASSIN DE HOU HSIAO-HSIEN

Por Mónica Delgado

The Assassin no pertenece al Wu Xia ni al cine de artes marciales de modo contundente. Tampoco hay una subversión o transgresión de este género del cine chino. Las peleas con espadas o de cuerpo a cuerpo apenas duran tres minutos en todo el metraje.

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BAFICI

BAFICI 2012: 10+10 -VARIUS

By Lea Liotine

I anticipated this film with the highest expectations, not only because it was a potpourri of twenty-five minute shorts by many established and emerging Taiwanese directors, including the master himself Hou Hsiao-hsien, but also because it was commissioned by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Republic of China’s formal establishment.

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