The Wayward Cloud

Taiwan is hit by a terrible drought. The television broadcasters recommend that the population save water and drink watermelon juice instead. As is usual, however, people find their own answers

to a problem. Shiang-Chyi secretly fills bottles with water in the public baths, and Hsiao-Kang has baths at night in the water tanks on the rooftops. They float by one another and never touch each other. Survival is difficult, but solitude is impossible to bear. Shiang-Chyi comes across a watermelon and, on the same day, meets Hsiao-Kang. She remembers she bought a watch from him when he was working as a street-vendor. The boy is now a porn actor, but this she is not yet aware of. Shiang-Chyi has never seen him since and has no idea what he might be doing there near her building. They fall in love, two clouds touching each other...

Born in Malaysia in 1957, Tsai Ming Liang moved to Taiwan in 1977. He is one of the most prominent film directors of Taiwan’s new cinema movement. He directed films such as Vive l’Amour (1994), Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival; The River (1997, 21st Mostra), Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival; The Hole (1998), Critics’s Prize at the Cannes Film Festival; What Time is it There? (2001, 26th Mostra); The Skywalk Is Gone (2002, 27th Mostra); Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, 27th Mostra), The Wayward Cloud (2004) and Stray Dogs (2013), Grand Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, and Days (2020, 44th Mostra). He has also directed Aquarium, a segment of the feature Welcome to São Paulo (2004), produced by Mostra. He has also directed the feature Face (2009), on invitation of the Louvre Museum.

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA