Published 2015-07-01
Keywords
- Hou Hsiao-hsien,
- Yasujirō Ozu,
- film codes,
- narration,
- Taiwanese cinema
- Japanese cinema. ...More
Abstract
Hou Hsiao-hsien’s cinematic language is one of the most consistent and rigorous of modern cinema. Hou’s meticulous stylistic approach is the result of his basic concern with finding the exact perspective to observe reality and convey it precisely to the audience. Nevertheless, his highly stylised films move away completely from the documentary form to accentuate the rhetoric of his own filmic code. Films like Millennium Mambo (2001) or Café Lumiére (2003) are passionate tales that seduce the spectator, stories told by a contemporary narrator who seeks to show us the present through his or her distinctive point of view. All these elements are examined through the influence of the Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu, the creation of Café Lumiére and other elements that link the work of the two directors.
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