Vive L'Amour
Directed by Tsai Ming-liang
Produced by Central Motion Picture Corporation
A melancholic, deliberately paced study of three isolated urban dwellers whose secret cohabitation becomes a meditation on loneliness, desire, and the impossibility of genuine connection.
Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment: May, a real estate agent who uses it for her sexual affairs; Ah-jung, her current lover; and Hsiao-kang, who's stolen the key and uses the apartment as a retreat.
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