La Saveur de la pastèque

Original title: Tian bian yi duo yun

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Shiang-chyi Chen in La Saveur de la pastèque (2005)

Hsiao-Kang, now working as a pornographic actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket.Hsiao-Kang, now working as a pornographic actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket.Hsiao-Kang, now working as a pornographic actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket.

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6.5/10

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Awards
- 9 wins & 9 nominations total

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Trivia
Many audience members left the theater during the final scene at the Berlin International Film Festival's screening.

Quotes
Shiang-chyi: [to Hsiao-Kang] Do you still sell watches?

Connections
Follows Et là-bas, quelle heure est-il ? (2001)

Soundtracks
Ai de kai shi
Performed by Lee Yao

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Featured review

9/10

To laugh or to cry

Watching Tian bian yi duo yun ( The Wayward Cloud ) is a really weird experience. I didn't whether to laugh or cry, to celebrate the brilliance of the film, to recoil in shock from the grittiness or to wince at the absurd campiness.

Its amazing how Tsai Ming-Liang manages to get the cast to emote so much through so little dialogue, how he builds an electrifying atmosphere through minimal use of music (except for the campy nostalgic music videos ... really something else altogether, a see to believe phenomenon).

The brutal scenes of porn filming and the drought were really alluding to the director's favorite theme of alienation, which really works very well. The final scene which seems to disgust so many people into walking out is a really fitting conclusion to this treatise on estrangement and is certainly unforgettable.