No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti (I Can't Live Without You) is an odd little film. Its one major weakness is it hardly seems to be about anything. While it tells the story of an itinerant Kaohsiung labourer who struggles to keep custody of his daughter in the face of bureaucratic indifference, it's not about one man against the world, and it neither paints its lead as underdog white knight nor its nominal villains as cruel or heartless.
At the same time, thanks in large part to this refusal to sully its dreamy, meditative ambience with any kind of reductive message - not to mention a stunning performance from Chen Wen-Pin and some truly wonderful cinematography - Taiwanese director Leon Dai's second film (after 20-Something Taipei) proves one of the best films out of the country in years.
It opens with a news report detailing how a nameless man...
At the same time, thanks in large part to this refusal to sully its dreamy, meditative ambience with any kind of reductive message - not to mention a stunning performance from Chen Wen-Pin and some truly wonderful cinematography - Taiwanese director Leon Dai's second film (after 20-Something Taipei) proves one of the best films out of the country in years.
It opens with a news report detailing how a nameless man...
- 3/24/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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