The Wayward Cloud

Synopsis

Taiwan's official contender for Oscar nomination, Ming-Liang Tsai's latest outrageous blend of sex, comedy, musical and drama went down a storm at the London Film Festival, leaving some audience members completely stunned. Daring, controversial and very funny.

Taiwan is beset by a terrible water shortage. TV stations are advising the population to economise drastically, and to drink watermelon juice. But, as always, people are finding their own solutions to the drought. Shiang-Chyi secretly fills discarded bottles in public toilets, while Hsiao-Kang takes midnight baths in rooftop storage tanks. They drift like clouds, never touching. Survival is hard, but loneliness is impossible to bear. Shiang-Chyi finds a watermelon, and on the same day encounters Hsiao-Kang. She remembers buying a watch from him when he worked as a street vendor. He's a porno actor now, but she doesn't know that yet...

Surreal, erotic, outrageous, The Wayward Cloud is a ravishing, vibrant, truly original musical from the internationally-acclaimed director of "Goodbye", "Dragon Inn" and "The River".

Please click a thumbnail to view the full-sized image:

More Info

Reviews

"high comedy, high-camp musical numbers and a vast amount of hardcore porn"

PETER BRADSHAW,THE GUARDIAN

"cinematic invention and balls-to-the-wall daring... I loved it"

TIM ROBEY, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

"brilliant... you've never seen anything like it"

JONATHAN ROMNEY, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

"brilliantly bonkers"

JASON SOLOMONS, MAIL ON SUNDAY

"exquisitely composed"

SIGHT AND SOUND

"witty, insightful and typically idiosyncratic"

GEOFF ANDREW, TIME OUT