Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien is arguably one of the greatest filmmakers in the world (he was voted “Director of the Decade” for the 1990s in a poll of American and international critics by The Village Voice and Film Comment).
But his output of late has been so incredibly slow and sparse; it’s arguably put a damper on his global acclaim outside the world of cinephiles.
While he received arguably his highest mark of international acclaim when he won the Best Director prize in Cannes for “The Assassin” in 2015, the film before that “Flight of the Red Balloon” (2007) was eight years prior.
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