This film, by
Tsai Ming-Liang, has everything you'd expect from the Taiwanese auteur: long, stationary takes;
convenient gaps between floorboards; and glorious preoccupations with water, male bodies, and
fluorescent foodstuffs. Since it takes place in Tsai's homeland of Malaysia and concerns exile in a foreign land, it's also his most personal film yet. Come for the
oblique homoeroticism, stay for the levitating mattress. (
SIFF Cinema at McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St, seattlefilm.org.
9 pm, $8—$10.)