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SUMMARY:Cinema Galerie : Millenium Mamboo
LOCATION:Cinema Gallerie
DESCRIPTION:Saved in Palaner as: saved\n\nPalaner match: 31% · why: lots of
  people going\n\nCinema Galerie : Millenium Mamboo\n\n11/08 @ 19h00\n\n[..
 .]\n\nHou Hsiao-hsien might best be described as "a film-maker's film-make
 r". Other directors revere the Taiwanese auteur\, even if his films rarely
  reach wide audiences. When Jim Jarmusch won the Cannes Grand Prix for Bro
 ken Flowers\, he seemed almost embarrassed at landing such an award ahead 
 of Hou\, whom he called his "teacher". French film-maker Olivier Assayas a
 dmired Hou so much that in 1997\, he made a feature length documentary abo
 ut him: HHH: Portrait de Hou Hsiao-hsien. Critics are equally enthusiastic
 . "Hou may well be one of the greatest story-tellers the cinema has known\
 , a rival to DW Griffith\," Kent Jones wrote recently. Hou was voted "Dire
 ctor of the Decade (1990s)" in a poll of international film critics put to
 gether by the Village Voice and Film Comment. Nonetheless\, not even winni
 ng a Golden Lion in Venice for his 1989 film City of Sadness has helped hi
 m emerge a long way outside the festival circuit.\n\n[...]\n\nThe Taiwanes
 e director researches his projects meticulously. For his 2001 feature\, Mi
 llennium Mambo\, largely set in the hyper-charged twilight world of the Ta
 ipei rave scene\, he threw himself into youth culture. The distinguished a
 uteur hung out at the local discos and even experimented with ecstasy. He 
 doesn't think it is a drug for his generation. "It relaxes you\," he muses
 . "Young people have many\, many pressures. When they take it\, they can o
 pen their minds\, relax and get rid of all these pressures. But I don't ha
 ve these pressures."\n\n[...]\n\nMillennium Mambo was part of his ongoing 
 attempt to explore Taiwanese culture\, history and politics. In his work\,
  he has dealt frankly with moments in Taiwan's recent past the censors wou
 ld rather he had left well alone. A City of Sadness was set in the late 19
 40s\, a time of huge upheaval in the country\, and made explicit reference
  to the 1947 massacre of unarmed demonstrators by Chaing Kai-Shek's Nation
 alist troops. The fact that the Tiananmen Square massacre happened at arou
 nd the time the film was released lent the sequence an added resonance.\n\
 nCinema Galerie\nThe Guardian\n\nFor Dreamers\, Coffee shots\, Orezza\, ea
 u de Saint-Georges !
URL:https://www.meetup.com/brussels-art-film-meetup-group/events/315452028/
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