Dust in the Wind (Lian lian feng chen)

"Potatoes can only absorb the nutriment after the vines have been cut. Then they'll grow well." And hindsight is 20/20, and you never know what you've got till it's gone, etc. 109 minutes means 6540 seconds means roughly 159,960 frames/attempts here to hold a moment of…

matt lynch

The march of time spares no one. Its passage is inevitable. As fate would have it, some instances of this unstoppable nature of time turn into a sudden typhoon. Within a few swift yet unexpected moments, it changes people. The blooming flower of love withers into dust in…

Ayush

while 'dust in the wind' does bridge hou’s early semi-autobiographical narratives and his more formally pronounced 90s films, it’s not a transitional work, in the sense that that label implies a journeyman quality. hou’s nuanced and varied approach to lighting should alone…

fivepoisonskid

Action! - Hou Hsiao-Hsien: The Long and Minimalist View of Taiwan Hou moves away from the childhood nostalgia to once again a coming of age about maturing in the big city after departing a small mining town. This would prove to be, as expected, challenging but also…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

Coming-of-age teen romance, but a love story is never just a love story with Hou Hsiao-hsien. What I keep coming back to is the way his characters' lives are overdetermined by the broader social conditions of their existence, and here he elaborates on this analysis by…

ScreeningNotes

“Sure as the wind keeps blowing nothing’s gonna heal these scars.”On finding your way. The roads range from long and wide to short and slight—rights of passage for the young and hopeful. Living in the shadow of the past: a flowing weed in the winds of fate. Remembering not…

Jerry

Dust in the Wind represents Hsiao-hsien Hou at the height of his powers, in full control of the narrative and formal elements in his work. Like many of his early efforts, it's an autobiographical film, based on Nien-jen Wu's life wo was essentially the father of the…

Keaton B

Dust in the Wind was Hou's follow up for his breaktrough A Time to Live and a Time to Die and as such it careful play the auteurist game, going back some of same formal strategy as well as the first person memory well. It doesn't has that early film sense of discovery, but…

Filipe Furtado

when you’re young and in love everything feels like it’ll kill you. but every moment passes eventually

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