Vive l'Amour
by Ming-liang Tsai
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Actor: Chao-jung Chen, Kang-sheng Lee, Kuei-Mei Yang, Yi-Ching LuDirector: Ming-liang Tsai
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: Mandarin Chinese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-03-31
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Fox Lorber
Movie Reviews of Vive l'Amour
Movie Review: Touching and original, if not for all tastes...
Summary: 4 Stars
One of the best of Tsai Ming-liang's glacial case studies of contemporary isolation and alienation in Taipei/the world, VIVE L'AMOUR is gripping in spite of it's extreme minimalism (his work shares this quality with Tarkovsky or Antonioni). Tsai's work is superficially very chilly and ultimately heartbreaking - though Tsai also (as always) manages to also sneak in a little deadpan humor, which in this case includes the rather ironic translated title.
Three young, outwardly successful Taiwanese happen to cross paths - unknowingly at first - in the empty Taipei condominium one (a real estate agent) is attempting to sell. Through a bare minimum in dialogue - VIVE L'AMOUR is essentially a silent film until about 20-30 minutes in - Tsai charts their isolation and fumbling attempts at various kinds of human connection and finding some personal sort of peace. Tsai's scenario and characters are globalized, stripped of most marks of identity, and very much adrift, and their growth (or lack of it) is communicated through sparse forms of acting, direction and cinematography that reinvents seemingly antiquated forms of film-making (again, silent film) into a new-millennial era. In this, Tsai crafts a sort of haunted, elegaic drama that slides around the limitations of language, inhabiting a dreamlike, if also very dark, psychological territory.
Typically Tsai uses no musical score, and the dialog is very sparse, with the film favoring the natural sound of whatever environment the characters find themselves in, so the many memorable scenes do tend to sneak up on you. The finale is unforgettable.
-David Alston
Summary of Vive l'Amour
This mesmerizing film focuses on a bizarre love triangle between two young people who meet in a vacant apartment and a gay man who hides in the same apartment spying on the couple.Art House & International DVD Video
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