Xi meng ren sheng (1993)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.4/10   

Director:

Hsiao-hsien Hou

Escritores:

T'ien-wen Chu (writer)
Tianlu Li (story)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

8 diciembre 1993 (France)

Género:

Biografía | Drama

Plot:

In the first half of this century, young Li Tienlu joines a travelling puppet theatre and subsequently...

Plot Keywords:

Puppet | Theater

Premios:

7 wins & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

fantastic - unless you expect action

Reparto

Tianlu Li	...	Himself
Giong Lim	...	Li Tianlu (young) (as Chung Lin)
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Ming Hwa Bai	...	Ong Hsiu (grandmother)
Fue Choung Cheng	...	Li Tien Lu adolescent
Chingju Huang
Tunghsiu Kao
Hei Li
Hung Liou	...	Li Hei (grandfather)
Wenbing Li
Wenchang Li
I. Toshiro
Chen-Nan Tsai	...	Komeng Dang (father)
Jen-Nan Tsai
Yi-Hua Tsai
Juwei Tzuo
Lai-Yin Yang	...	Lai Hwat (stepmother)

También conocida como:

In the Hands of a Puppet Master (International: English title)
Si meng ren sheng (Taiwan)
The Puppetmaster
El maestro de marionetas (Spain) [es]

Duración:

142 min | Argentina:142 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente)

País:

Taiwan

Idioma:

Mandarin | Taiwanese | Japonés

Color:

Color

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

UK:15

Locaciones de Filmación:

Taiwan

Compañía:

ERA

fantastic - unless you expect action

This movie is truely a puppet show: If I remember correctly the camery doesn't move even once - just a dozen or so cuts, each depicting one scene with a different set-up, each scene remaining for several minutes. Persons move through the scenerey: sometimes you see someone doing something, sometimes you even recognize what he is doing. After a while you realize the same persons appear in different scenes. Even later you start picking up the story. Yes, there is a story, even though noone explains anything, hardly any word is said (was there a word at all? Maybe even not). all your concentration is needed to find out what is going on. The audience finds itself in the situation of an ethnographer meeting for the first time some unknown group of people, trying to find out something about them. The scenes, which initially seemed to keep on forever suddenly appear to change much too fast - you might be able to understand more, if they kept on longer.

Once you get into this movie, it is pure gold. If you want action, even one minute of The Puppetmaster will bore you to death.