Review by: Topo Sanchez
SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
The seventh and final film from Taiwanese New Wave legend Edward Yang, Yi Yi, is an epic masterpiece that gives backstage access to the intricacies of relationships within a family unit, as well as modern society as a whole. 1,064 more words
The late Edward Yang is among the most fastidious and precise of all observers of human nature. His films are not so much character studies as they are metaphysical documents of the intersection between the social and the personal, the external and the internal. 2,004 more words
On the day of Edward Yang’s death the art house world lost a huge talent. Quite possibly the most acclaimed member of Taiwan’s New Wave, he did not rise to international fame until a little film named Yi Yi: A One And A Two won Yang the Best Director award at Cannes Film Festival. 325 more words
Ting-Ting’s grandmother. She has a stoke while throwing out the garbage bag Ting-Ting has forgot to take outside. Yi Yi: A One and a Two (2000) … 278 more words
This film is an example of cinema at its finest. Cinema that makes you consider heavy existential themes, but with a tone that can range from darkly honest, to light and heartwarming; cinema that you think about for days after you’ve finished watching. 491 more words
