AFTERNOON
Tsai Ming-Liang

O.V. Mandarin

Two men sit on easy chairs in the corner of a ruined building. Through the old windows, an almost supernaturally green jungle creeps into the bare concrete space. Filmed from a moderately high angle, the men occupy the right third of the frame. While the camera focuses on them, they talk. About everything. Their memories, individual and shared, their lives, families, desires, the end they fear. Also and especially, creativity. The two men are Tsai Ming-Liang and his go-to actor, Lee Kang-sheng,...