‘The Puppetmaster’, directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien in 1993, is a Taiwanese biopic focusing on the life of Li Tian-lu, a celebrated puppeteer, from his birth in 1909 to the end of the Japanese occupation of the island in 1945. The film combines interviews with the real Tian-lu, in his eighties, whilst flashing back to events…
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Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
“May those who sit down be loved.” ‘Songs from the Second Floor’, directed by Roy Andersson in 2000, is a Swedish comedy focusing on the ever increasingly surreal lives of modern city dwellers. The film is formed by a series of vignettes showing middle aged men in a number of bizarre situations, or normal situations…
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