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Yi yi ("Yi Yi: A One and a Two")
(2000)
Directed by Edward Yang, written by Edward Yang
Most moviemakers seek to entertain their audience, or to illustrate a lesson
of some kind. There are a handful of artists, and I stress that word, who
are instead explorers, inviting us to come and discover things alongside.
They show us the other side of life, the questions for which we do not have
answers. Names like Kieslowski and Tarkovsky come to mind. I go to movies
in hopes of finding something like that, something that doesn't show you all
of its cards right off the bat, something that I will want to see again over
and over for the rest of my life. I just found one of those. Yi Yi is the first film by Edward Yang I've ever seen. But it only
took about five minutes for me to know that this was going to be something
very special indeed. One character says, "Movies are lifelike. That is
why we like them." He explains that movies concentrate life to such a
potency that we walk away having lived life more than once. Yi Yi proves
it, offering us many lives, and a world of truth and discovery. It overwhelms
me. Read the full
review by Jeffrey Overstreet at Looking Closer. This film was included as part of the 2004 Flickerings @ Cornerstone
Festival. Click here
to learn more about this film's apperance at Flickerings. Additional
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