My New Friends

My New Friends (1995)

我新认识的朋友

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.

Date of release
1995-01-01
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
56m
Genres
Documentary, TV Movie
Director
Tsai Ming-liang

Casting

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