Projection and discussion
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
03 Dec 2022
The event is over
At the last projection before an old cinema shuts its doors forever, a young Japanese man rushes into the theatre to take shelter from the driving rain.
On the screen, Dragon Gate Inn, a cloak-and-dagger film dating from 1964. The place seems empty, devoid of life, but there are other presences besides the few spectators seated in the theatre.
"Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-Liang indulges in a very personal reverie that brings together in the same nostalgia the popular films he saw in his childhood and the places where he saw them, theatres with a mixed public and fascinating décors that were sources of emotion in themselves. Goodbye, Dragon Inn is a farewell to these old enchantments, to the films and actors of a bygone time, but also to the stories and dreams of the anonymous people who frequented these places."
Marie-Noëlle Tranchant, Le Figaro, 21 July 2004
Tsai Ming-Liang, Goodbye, Dragon Inn. Taiwan, 2003, 82 min, DCP, colour, without dialogues, restored version
With Lee Kang-Sheng, Mitamura Kiyonobu, Chen Shiang-Chyi
Preceded by:
Tsai Ming-Liang, Autumn Days. Taiwan, 2016, 24 min, video, colour, original version with French subtitles
Autumn Days is Tsai Ming-Liang's homage, in the form of a portrait, to ninety-year-old Nogami Teruyo, Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's close collaborator for more than half a century.
In the presence of the filmmaker and Xavier Leherpeur
When
8pm - 10pm
Where
© Arena Films