"Cinéma, de notre temps" HHH - Un portrait de Hou Hsiao-Hsien (1997)

Director:

Olivier Assayas

Writer:

Olivier Assayas (writer)

TV Series:

"Cinéma, de notre temps" (1988)

Original Air Date:

10 September 1997

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

Cast

Kuo-fu Chen
T'ien-wen Chu
Hsiao-hsien Hou	...	Himself
She Kao
Giang Lin
Du-Che Tu
Nien-Jen Wu

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

France | Taiwan

Language:

French | English | Mandarin | Taiwanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:Atp | France:U | Singapore:PG

Company:

AMIP

Movie Connections:

Follows "Cinéma, de notre temps: Abbas Kiarostami - Vérités et songes" (1994)

Pursued by a no-doubt-adoring, gangling Olivier Assayas...

...Hou Hsiao-hsien walks around his native Taiwan and conveys the historicizing and sociological imperatives of his movies. What's cool is that he's much more of a gum-chewing tough guy and a strutting cock than his films would let on. Like Hou's work, Assayas' documentary feels anthropology-seminar-like, smarter than one is used to, and very nearly eternal.