Synopsis
Rawang, an immigrant from Bangladesh living in awful conditions, takes pity on a Chinese man, Hsiao-kang, who is beaten up and left in the street. Rawang lovingly nurses him on a mattress he found. When he is almost healed, Hsiao-kang meets the waitress Chyi. His love for Rawang is put to the test.
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Cast
- Lee Kang-shengHsiao-Kang
- Norman AtunRawang
- Chen Shiang-ChyiChyi
- Pearlly ChuaLady Boss
- Lee-Lin LiewCoffee-Shop Tea Maker
- Leonard TeeLight Seller
- Su-Yee TohBoss's Second Son
- Kok-Fai ChiewBoss's Grandson
- Rong-Sin ChanEstate Agent
- Kok-Choy LohFinancier
Recommendations
- 88
TV Guide Magazine
Tsai finds great beauty in streets of Kuala Lumpur particularly at night, making this gorgeous film one that should be seen on a large screen in the total darkness of a theater. - 88
Boston Globe
The movie is a block of paper that, when Tsai's finished with it, becomes a chain of snowflakes. Loneliness doesn't often get such a gorgeously ornate tribute. - 80
Variety
With a pronounced Baroque palette and his usual astonishing use of light, picture looks ravishing -- individual scenes make a deeper impact than the characters themselves. - 80
The New York Times
Mr. Tsai's films are held together internally, and connected one to another, by an elusive, insistent logic that is easier to recognize than to describe. But once you do start to recognize it, each new movie offers passage to an exotic place that feels, uncannily, like home. - 78
Austin Chronicle
Tsai’s drama is something like a mixture of Robert Bresson and R.W. Fassbinder, as God’s bedraggled souls struggle with the desires of the damned, and nobody wants to go into that good night alone. - 67
The A.V. Club
The film ends so beautifully that it's easy to forgive the dead passages that preceded it and hope it carries over into his next movie.
