Movie Review - Goodbye South, Goodbye
Nanguo zaijan, nanguo (1996)
directed by Hsiao-hsien Hou
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix
Sometimes I feel like Jim Broadbent staring at the Japanese fans in Topsy-Turvy, but any time an Asian film involves food, I get an enormous appetite. In "Goodbye South, Goodbye," the protagonist's fatigue is mirrored in the length of shots and scenes, and Hou - like me & Truffaut - loves the front-on shot of things in motion: locomotives, motorcycles, cars. Those tracks just go and go, until you're far enough away from the picturesque rural train station to see how ordinary a town it occupies, and what an eye someone needs to show that to you.
directed by Hsiao-hsien Hou
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix
Sometimes I feel like Jim Broadbent staring at the Japanese fans in Topsy-Turvy, but any time an Asian film involves food, I get an enormous appetite. In "Goodbye South, Goodbye," the protagonist's fatigue is mirrored in the length of shots and scenes, and Hou - like me & Truffaut - loves the front-on shot of things in motion: locomotives, motorcycles, cars. Those tracks just go and go, until you're far enough away from the picturesque rural train station to see how ordinary a town it occupies, and what an eye someone needs to show that to you.
posted by NPK at 7:45 AM
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