I DON'T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE

Event Date: November 19, 2009 - 7:30pm

Location: James Bridges Theater in Melnitz Hall

After seven features set primarily in Taipei, director Tsai Ming- Liang returns to his birthplace with a film unlike any of his prior works. Featuring a cast of multi-cultural and multi-lingual characters, the film is set against the vivid, crowded, neon-lit streets of Kuala Lumpur, a world of immigrant workers, dark alleys and seedy hotels. A heavy haze descends on the city, so humid that it stinks of the perspiration of its multi-ethnic people. These men and women and an old mattress lose their way in the haze but perhaps find one another in Tsai's deepest exploration of desire, alienation, and loss.

Director Tsai Ming-liang and star Lee Kang-sheng in person!

"Contemporary cinema’s reigning poet of solitude” -Jared Rapfogel, CINEASTE
“closer to ballet than drama, this urban nocturne is one of Tsai's most beautiful and naturalistic films" -J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE
"[Tsai] manages, even while focusing on K.L.’s grubbiest of housing conditions, to come up with his most gorgeously visualized film" -Chuck Stephens, FILM COMMENT

DIRECTOR and WRITER: Tsai Ming-liang
CAST: Lee Kang-Sheng, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Norman Atun
In Malay, Mandarin, and Bengali with English subtitles
118 min