I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
Austria, France, Taiwan, 2006 | 115 min. | Dir. Tsai Ming-Liang
Tsai Ming-Liang's 2005 film The Wayward Cloud has so far bypassed Seattle, but you can find solace in his newest. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone has everything you expect from the Malaysian-Tawainese auteur: long, stationary takes; quietly exquisite compositions; lots of water; convenient gaps between the floorboards; fluorescent-colored foodstuffs; and oblique homoeroticism. The overarching theme is finding intimacy with incapacitated people. It's strange, and yes, it's great.