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Bu San (2003)

Drama | 82 minutes
3,39 117 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 82 minuten

Alternative titles: Good Bye, Dragon Inn / Goodbye, Dragon Inn / 不散

Country: Taiwan

Directed by: Ming-liang Tsai

Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen and Kiyonobu Mitamura

IMDb score: 7,1 (7.040)

Releasedate: 12 December 2003

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Bu San plot

On the last night before an old movie theater closes, a young Japanese man comes running into the theater. It seems extinct at first. But it turns out there are people. The old movie "Dragon Inn" can be seen on the screen. The man, looking for company, comes across the figures from the film. Only they are old now and they are looking at themselves on the silver screen. Are they real or are they ghosts refusing to leave the theater?

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Spetie

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My first encounter with the work of Ming-liang Tsai and I quite liked it.

What immediately struck me here is the lack of dialogue. In the film that people are watching in the cinema, there is some talking, but it lasts fifty minutes before something is said by a person who is not in the film. I can understand that some people find that boring, but Tsai manages to keep it all reasonably interesting.

There is an alternation between the crippled woman and the cinema. The crippled woman kept me busy, because I wondered what she was doing. The cinema itself provides the necessary humor, because the Japanese man sitting there is quite bothered by the people around him. Those old people, who are looking at themselves and towards the end talk to each other, while the rain is dripping down, give everything an extra nostalgic and melancholic atmosphere. Occasionally Tsai goes a bit too far with his long static shots, although the message of the empty cinema at the end is conveyed extra well.

A special film, that must be said. I also like directors who pay a lot of attention to the influence of earlier cinema on the current one and Tsai certainly seems to belong to that group based on this film.

3.5*

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Onderhond

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A little less.

Revisited a long time ago but apparently forgot to update my review here. Would have left it like that, if it weren't for the fact that I still took half a point off.

The humor in Tsai's films is still to be commended, it is simply too funny and too silly for that, certainly within this type of film, which rarely deals with comedy. But besides that I found it really to be a bit too slow at times. He seems to be doing it on purpose, but the shuffling of the old man sometimes got on my nerves.

Visually also a bit less than I remembered, although there is still enough to see and the film does have a few beautiful shots. In the past I could get away with these kinds of films a bit easier, in the meantime they have become a bit too familiar to me and the specialness has perhaps worn off a bit. It remains a fascinating film, that's for sure, but I didn't see that special thing in it anymore.

4.0* and an extensive review

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Fisico

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Slow cinema about a shabby cinema that hardly attracts any people. And few people means few characters. Whoever does step forward is silent. Tsai speaks mainly with images. It is a kind of melancholic film, a nostalgia for the heyday of cinema.

Visually beautifully shot. You are almost forced to pay attention to other things. Because the characters - who stare into space for minutes - will not come. And then Tsai makes something surreal of it with those two men who come to see their film, so many years later. The emotion that was developed there was powerful. In itself anyway, but also amplified because the rest of the film was rather emotionless.

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