ARTHOUSE
A Film Lecture Series
Led by Tony McKibbinCo-organised with Sigrid Schmeisser
The River
(He liu)
A young man gets dragged into working as an extra and is filmed as a corpse in the Tamsui River, known for its pollution. Afterwards he becomes inexplicably sick but maybe it isn’t so surprising after all. The film looks with a shy distance as it wonders whether its central character will ever heal.
Director
Tsai Ming-liang, MY
Writers
Tsai Ming-liang
Yi-chun Tsai
Pi-ying Yang
Starring
Miao Tien
Kang-sheng Lee
Yi-ching Lu
Release date
1997