My New Friends
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1995-01-01
Runtime: 56 mins
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
Spoken language: 普通话
Genres: Documentary, TV Movie
Original title: My New Friends
Production Companies:
Production Countries: Taiwan
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