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Il maestro burattinaio

Titolo originale: Xi meng ren sheng
  • 1993
  • 2h 22min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
7,0/10
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Il maestro burattinaio (1993)
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaPuppeteer Li Tian-lu tells his life story, and through it, the story of Taiwan in the first half of the 20th century.Puppeteer Li Tian-lu tells his life story, and through it, the story of Taiwan in the first half of the 20th century.Puppeteer Li Tian-lu tells his life story, and through it, the story of Taiwan in the first half of the 20th century.

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    • Hsiao-Hsien Hou
  • Sceneggiatura
    • T'ien-wen Chu
    • Tien-Lu Li
    • Nien-Jen Wu
  • Star
    • Tien-Lu Li
    • Giong Lim
    • Kuei-Chung Cheng
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    7,0/10
    2201
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Hsiao-Hsien Hou
    • Sceneggiatura
      • T'ien-wen Chu
      • Tien-Lu Li
      • Nien-Jen Wu
    • Star
      • Tien-Lu Li
      • Giong Lim
      • Kuei-Chung Cheng
    • 10Recensioni degli utenti
    • 15Recensioni della critica
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      • 7 vittorie e 4 candidature totali

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    Tien-Lu Li
    • Self
    • (as Tian-Lu Li)
    Giong Lim
    Giong Lim
    • Li Tianlu (young)
    • (as Chung Lin)
    Kuei-Chung Cheng
    • Li Tien Lu adolescent
    Chien-ru Huang
    Liou Hung
    • Li Hei (grandfather)
    Tung-Hsiu Kao
    Hei Li
    Wenchang Li
    Wen-Pin Liu
    Ming-Hua Pai
    Ming-Hua Pai
    • Ong Hsiu (Grandmother)
    I. Toshiro
    Chen-Nan Tsai
    Chen-Nan Tsai
    • Komeng Dang (father)
    Yi-Hua Tsai
    Juwei Tzuo
    Li-Yin Yang
    Li-Yin Yang
    • Lai Hwat (stepmother)
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      • Hsiao-Hsien Hou
    • Sceneggiatura
      • T'ien-wen Chu
      • Tien-Lu Li
      • Nien-Jen Wu
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    10abeldevil

    Filial love is stronger than millennial traditions

    Perhaps Asian movies there are considered slow. But inside this slow-motion film you can feel the intensity of the human emotions in every look.

    The intensity of every shoot makes this movie an extraordinary experience for everybody.

    The plot of the film is something more than a tribute of a losing tradition, the puppets art, is about the relationships between an old man an his adopted niece. How the affection between they could break absurd but ingrain traditions from hundreds of years ago.

    The incredible sequences of puppets are only an addition in the incredible beauty of the Taiwanese landscape.The entire movie in general has a flavour that makes it tasty from start to finish.
    7psteier

    For those interested in Chinese Theater or Puppetry or in the Japanese Occupation of Taiwan

    Life in Taiwan during and shortly after the Japanese occupation (1895-1945) as seen by re-enacting episodes from the life of a hand puppeteer. The film includes selections from several puppet plays and some Chinese Opera scenes as well.

    Episodic and can be hard to follow for those without a knowledge of Taiwan history and customs. Beautifully shot with very nice sets, costumes and exteriors.
    10hraether

    fantastic - unless you expect action

    This movie is truely a puppet show: If I remember correctly the camery doesn't move even once - just a dozen or so cuts, each depicting one scene with a different set-up, each scene remaining for several minutes. Persons move through the scenerey: sometimes you see someone doing something, sometimes you even recognize what he is doing. After a while you realize the same persons appear in different scenes. Even later you start picking up the story. Yes, there is a story, even though noone explains anything, hardly any word is said (was there a word at all? Maybe even not). all your concentration is needed to find out what is going on. The audience finds itself in the situation of an ethnographer meeting for the first time some unknown group of people, trying to find out something about them. The scenes, which initially seemed to keep on forever suddenly appear to change much too fast - you might be able to understand more, if they kept on longer.

    Once you get into this movie, it is pure gold. If you want action, even one minute of The Puppetmaster will bore you to death.
    5zetes

    Profoundly Boring

    Jeeze, whoever decided, out of the blue, to declare Hou Hsiao-hsien a master filmmaker was really pushing it. Those who chose to believe that opinion are even more guilty. I don't want to declare that he's untalented. I did truly like Dust in the Wind and City of Sadness, no matter how flawed I found them to be. The Puppetmaster is an enormous step in the wrong direction, more like the atrocious A Time to Live, a Time to Die than the two I actually tolerated. Hou's just not especially talented. People praise him to high heaven, claiming that his style is incredibly unique. Let me diagram his directorial technique: 1. Static long shots with few movements and few close ups. 2. His shots are often framed by doorways and the like. 3. Many landscape shots. 4. Characters in a scene often remain out of sight for a long time at the beginning of a scene, which confounds the audience when a visible character is talking to or interacting with them. 5. Loose narrative structure. 6. The subject of his films is most often Taiwanese history, often radiating from the tumultuous period of the WWII era. That's it. There is not one thing on this list that hasn't been done before and much better, whether Asian or Western (well, maybe the thing about Taiwanese history, but plenty of great filmmakers have illuminated their own country's history). The combination of several of these factors (and no more) is a recipe for insomnia medication. His cinema is about as limiting as cinema can get, reminscent of pre-Griffith cinema, where filmmakers never thought to move their camera or give a close-up of anything. The effects are all de-dramatizing, which is extraordinarily pointless. As Pauline Kael once said, if films aren't supposed to be entertaining, then what are they supposed to be? Torture? I know what Hou's answer would be.

    Sorry. I went a bit too far with that last paragraph. The Puppetmaster does have its great moments, mostly coming in two forms: theatrical performances (puppet plays and opera) and one-on-one interviews with the Puppetmaster himself, Li Tien-lu, where he tells long and rambling stories - long and rambling, but very interesting and entertaining - about his life. The rest of the film is made up of accounts of the events he's talking about acted out on screen. Some are good, some are bad, but none of them are inherently interesting. Since these episodes are only tenuously connected to the past and the future, there is absolutely no weight to these scenes. This is particularly pathetic, because the real Li Tien-lu was the best part of both Dust in the Wind and City of Sadness. I would have been infinitely more contented to just watch the interviews without the sketches, because Li is a beautiful human being (not to mention a marvelous actor) whose face, body movements, and tone of voice communicate infinitely more than the motionless actors and actresses who are insultingly acting out his life experiences.

    And people who would like to deify this director and, consequently, want to crucify me, check out my other tastes: if you want to jump to the conclusion that I'm a brainless American who needs his movies fast, chew on a few of my favorite films that 99% of the population would find as slow as molasses: 2001, anything by Andrei Tarkovsky, anything by Antonioni, most things by Bergman, My Dinner with Andre, Dreyer's sound films (Ordet, Day of Wrath, and Gertrud), Rhapsody in August, The Decalogue, and The Dreamlife of Angels, for starters. How about those who would criticize me for not liking loose narratives? Godard is one of my very favorite filmmakers. And seeing that The Puppetmaster was supposedly improvised, at least in the editing room, I happen to love Pierrot le fou, Godard's film where he, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Anna Karina grabbed a camera and went out on the road, improvising an entire film (as rumor has it). And if this is all Hou could come up with if he came into this film not having an idea what he was going to make, Fellini did the same thing with 8 1/2, and that is one of the ten best films ever made, in my opinion. Now how come I don't love this master's films? The answer is simple, methinks: he's no master.

    I have very stubbornly stuck with a different Hou film every Friday for a month now, and he has revealed little or nothing to me about the human condition or the nature of filmmaking. Seeing that the showings are free, I'm not going to skip them. However, I can breathe a huge sigh of relief that there is a two week break in this particular series. 5/10 for The Puppetmaster.
    5Jeremy_Urquhart

    The emperor is wearing some clothes, but not many.

    I hate to say it, since I liked The Assassin, Millennium Mambo, and (especially) A City of Sadness, but The Puppetmaster is sort of a misfire by Hsiao-Hsien Hou's standards. He makes a biopic of sorts that also sometimes feels like a documentary, since the central figure gives interviews throughout the film, but the scenes between these interviews are so lifeless. There might be some point being made with the approach here, but it just feels borderline disrespectful to have Li Tian-lu tell a story about his past coherently and compellingly, and then for it to cut to (sometimes cutting the narration off in the process) a dramatized scene that farts around and doesn't do much. I'll stress that I said it feels borderline disrespectful, not that it is disrespectful, because I'd like to hope there's some reason for this approach I just didn't pick up on. But I didn't like how it felt, and that's something I can't help but take away from watching this film just this once.

    It's a little more interesting nearer the end, and the interview segments are good. It's the first 45 or so minutes that are the most torturously slow. The film is visually distinctive, even if I didn't really like how most of it looked and was edited. But it's all just a bit baffling, enough for me to suspect it might be a Hsiao-Hsien Hou misfire, even if it's more likely something I didn't get, just based on the strengths of his other works.

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    • Data di uscita
      • 8 dicembre 1993 (Francia)
    • Paese di origine
      • Taiwan
    • Lingue
      • Mandarino
      • Min Nan
      • Giapponese
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