Berlin 2005: Tsai Ming-Liang’s Sexually Explicit THE WAYWARD CLOUD

"The body always plays an important role in my films," says Malaysian-born filmmaker Tsai Ming-Liang. "You could say the body is the most beautiful thing we have or you could say it’s the ugliest thing we have. We can sell bodies, we can adore or worship bodies."
Set in an urban apartment house in the midst of a summertime drought, Tsai’s made-in-Taiwan (with additional French and Chinese state funding), sexually explicit The Wayward Cloud tells the story of a fledgling pornography star who runs into the woman he once loved. Graphic sexual scenes are interspersed with outrageous musical numbers, including one featuring a dancing penis.
The film stars Lee Kang-sheng and Chen Shiang-chyi.
The Wayward Cloud is up for the [...]

Berlin 2005: Official Competition Line-Up

2005 Berlin Film Festival Competition Line-Up

Anklaget (Accused), Denmark, director Jacob Thuesen

Asylum, United States / Ireland, director David MacKenzie

De battre mon coeur s’est arreté (The Beat That My Heart Slipped), France, director Jacques Audiard

Gespenster (Ghosts), Germany / France, director Christian Petzold

In Good Company, United States, director Paul Weitz

Kakushi Ken – Oni no Tsume (The Hidden Blade), Japan, director Yoji Yamada

Kong que (Peacock), China, director Gu Changwei

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, United States, director Wes Anderson

Man to Man, France / South Africa / Britain, director Regis Wargnier

Les mots bleus (Words in Blue), France, director Alain Corneau

One Day in Europe, Germany / Spain, director Hannes Stoehr

Paradise Now, Netherlands / France, director [...]