🎬 Movie

My New Friends

Name: My New Friends
Released: 1995
Duration: 56 min
Rating: 5.5
Cast: Tsai Ming-liang, Lee Kang-sheng, Pearlly Chua

我新认识的朋友

📅 1995 ⭐ 5.5 🕐 56m

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Documentary TV Movie

Tsai interrupted his pre-production for The River to make this pioneering documentary for Taiwan's nascent AIDS-awareness campaign. Ignoring instructions to 'play down the gay angle', he centres the film on his own very candid conversations with two HIV+ young men. Sadly the identities of the interviewees have to be concealed, and so the freewheeling camerawork focuses most often on Tsai himself; but the sense of rapport between the director and his 'new friends' is palpable and very moving, even to Western viewers already only too familiar with these issues.

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