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.)

Annie Wagner is The Stranger's former film editor. She was born and raised in Capitol Hill, but has since lived in such far-flung locales as Phoenix, AZ, Charlottesville, VA, and Wedgwood. After graduating...