Goodbye, South, Goodbye (Nanguo Zaijian, Nanguo)

A youthful gangster film about moving around while killing time until yet another transactional exchange. One of the most essential movies about living on capitalist society, 25 years ago and now. And Hou gives it his total contral of light, movement, stillness, mood. Every…

Filipe Furtado

Action! - Hou Hsiao-Hsien: The Long and Minimalist View of Taiwan Sorry, not getting poetic with this one. Sadly, I wasn’t as engrossed as with a lot of the director’s previous work. I guess that’s the downside of watching a director’s filmmaker in a row, especially when…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

Hands on the wheel.                                        A mere drop in the bucket. In movement hope flutters, in stasis it fleets. So many lonely hearts caved in amid ole’ bright lights, big city. Lonesome not because they’ve no friends or partners, but because it is…

Jerry

Rather than being dislocated by war or language or shifting social structures the characters here have been swept up in a slipstream of capital, bound to an unseen but inescapable current. Here the distance between spaces, like city and country, is sort of collapsed, and…

matt lynch

Hou Hsiao-Hsien makes every other director look like parents filming their kids sixth-grade piano recital.

Zach a.m.

There is only a single, temporary escape to the dingy rooms in Goodbye South, Goodbye : driving. Even if the driving is done with purpose and not for pleasure, it acts as a cure to the suffocation caused by staying in those soulless and drab houses. The rooms remind me of…

Ayush

it's a pity that this isn't more readily available, because i think it's actually the most accessible hou film for newcomers -- his camera has never been more virtuosic, and the fast and dirty way he assembles this gangster story gives a great lens to his socio-economic…

comrade_yui

Inspired by Godard's Breathless, Hou Hsiao-hsien pulls off his best Nouvelle Vague impression without losing an ounce of his unapologetically local auteurism. Unlike A City of Sadness or Millennium Mambo, Goodbye South, South discards any trace of artificial fiction in…

nick

Are you a failure or victim of design? Live for today because of what was promised in the past but a hopeful future is nonexistent. Economic diaspora matters not when connections are frail or faulty, yourself frozen in place on account of not just others' missteps and…

Dizzle_Sizzle