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Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
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A near-empty Taipei cinema hosts a screening while patrons and workers make their own tentative journeys through it. Tsai Ming-liang's locked-off views and long pauses make footsteps, snacks and awkward proximity unexpectedly funny, then lonely. You do not need to know the martial-arts film on the screen to recognise the desire for company. There is very little plot to chase; the reward lies in exploring a building whose sounds and missed connections gradually become its story.
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About Goodbye, Dragon Inn
On a dark, wet night in Taipei City, a cavernous old picture palace is about to close its doors forever. A meager audience, the remaining few staff, and perhaps even a ghost or two, watch King Hu’s wuxia classic "Dragon Inn", each haunted by memories and desires evoked by cinema itself.