My New Friends
Tsai interrupted his pre-production for The River to make this pioneering documentary for Taiwan's nascent AIDS-awareness campaign. Ignoring instructions to 'play down the gay angle', he centres the film on his own very candid conversations with two HIV+ young men. Sadly the identities of the interviewees have to be concealed, and so the freewheeling camerawork focuses most often on Tsai himself; but the sense of rapport between the director and his 'new friends' is palpable and very moving, even to Western viewers already only too familiar with these issues.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
Cast
Tsai Ming-liang
Himself
Lee Kang-sheng
Pearlly Chua
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Details
- Type
- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release
- Jan 1, 1995
- Runtime
- 56m
- Genres
- Documentary, TV Movie
- Director
- Tsai Ming-liang