Tsai Ming-Liang Talks Beauty of Slow Cinema and Teases New Feature Film With Regular Actor Lee Kang-Sheng: ‘I Just Want to Look at Him Again’
variety.comMarta Balaga Malaysian director Tsai Ming-liang might be done with his semi-retirement. “I have a strong desire to make another feature film,” he tells Variety at Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival. “With my actors, we’ve been working together for such a long time.
Recently, they’ve been starring in other people’s films and I want them to be in my film again. I am waiting for them to reach a certain age, and we will do it again.
Hopefully, I’ll live long enough to see that happen. Just one more feature film! That’s enough for me.” His biggest concern? “My physicality.
Do I still have the energy to shoot more films? Looking back, I can see I am different now, but I also like the idea of being old and having a different energy,” says the 67-year-old, still dedicated to “making portraits” of his actors. “I want to do it when they are older, too.
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