The Hole
by Ming-liang Tsai
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Actor: Hsiang-Chu Tong, Hui-Chin Lin, Kang-sheng Lee, Kuei-Mei Yang, Lin Kun-hueiDirector: Ming-liang Tsai
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-11-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Fox Lorber
Movie Reviews of The Hole
Movie Review: Unique, wonderful, charming, funny, disturbing--what a film!
Summary: 5 Stars
Tsai Ming-Liang is truly a unique talent. In The Hole he's envisioned life at the end of the 20th century in Taipei, beset by a bizarre combination of endless rain and a very weird viral plague that leaves its victims sneezing, crawling around like roaches, and avoiding the light. In a rundown apartment building live a single man and, directly underneath him, a single woman, both in their late 20s/early 30s.
The ceaseless rain ruins everything--wallpaper, mattresses, you name it. The juxtaposition of this constantly dreary environment with continuous loneliness gives rise, in the heart of the young woman, to fantasy sequences in which the songs of Grace Chang, a popular Taiwanese singer, are enacted, musical revue-style, by the woman and backup singers/dancers in appropriately glitzy attire. These astonishing interludes, coming completely out of nowhere, make the viewer sit up and take notice--here is a filmmaker with some serious filmmaking chops, no question.
The title refers to the opening left in the young man's floor by a clumsy plumber who's come to, supposedly, fix the faulty pipes in the man's apartment. He never returns to fix the hole and through it, in the course of the film, comes bug spray, a leg, an arm, and, eventually, the young woman herself. Seeing a leg dangling from your ceiling--from the perspective of the downstairs apartment resident--is surreal to say the least.
This is one of the most creative love stories in cinema and Tsai Ming-Liang should be heartily congratulated for doing what so few filmmakers these days are doing--taking chances to a remarkable degree, giving in film what so few can give--real inspiration based on creativity that knows no limits.
A terrific film that should be seen by those who love cinema for what it really can do. Very highly recommended.
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