Two French-Taiwanese cinema gods walk into a room. What unfolds is pure cine-magic.
Entry on Taiwanese new-wave filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien for French television's "Cinéma, de notre temps" series, directed by Olivier Assayas.
Direction
Assayas lets Hou's silences speak louder than words
Cinematography
Hou's own films bleeding through—meta-visual poetry
Director
Olivier Assayas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Assayas and Hou would collaborate again years later; this doc essentially baptized their creative marriage.
This is peak 'Cinéma, de notre temps' energy—French intellectual TV actually respecting Asian auteurs in 1999.
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