Taiwan Docs

"I had been in Hong Kong with Charles Tesson and we were preparing a special issue of Les Cahier du cinema. It was at the invitation of Chen Kou-Fu, that I went to Taipei. He invited some friends to dinner and I made the acquaintance of Edwarrd Yang, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, and Christopher Doyle, an Australian Cinematographer who had just worked on Edward’s first film, and who would go on to bring the vrucial spark to the style of Wong Kar-Wai, doing the lighting and camera work on all his films.

I must say that following the evolution of his work, year after year, film after film, has given me some of the greatest pleasure I have known as a spectator, mixed with the satisfaction of watching his international recognition develop, establishing him as one of the most important filmmakers of his time. Especially since he won the Golden Lion at Venice for his masterpiece The City of Sadness. Now, very recently, I was once again impressed by the curve he has taken in his last two films Good Men, Good Women, and Goodbye South, Goodbye, toward and abstraction-that is to day, toward an invisible truth in things-as tuned in to his films, as directly to the heart as Antonioni could be in the beginning of the sixties." -- Oliveier Assayas

source: Taiwan International Documentary Festival