CinemaOSMovie · 1995 · 0h 56m

My New Friends

55%(2)IMDbDocumentaryTV 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.

Directed byTsai Ming-liang

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 56m
Language
ZH
Released
January 1, 1995

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Cast & crew

3 credited
Starring
Tsai Ming-liang

Tsai Ming-liang

Himself

Lee Kang-sheng

Lee Kang-sheng

Pearlly Chua

Pearlly Chua

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Directed by
Tsai Ming-liang
Tsai Ming-liang

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