The Hole (film, 1998)

The Hole is a free-Taiwanese film carried out by Tsai Ming-liang, left the March 24th 1999 in France.

Synopsis

The day before the year 2000, in a Taiwanese city, a mysterious epidemic obliges people to leave the city in prey with a rain who fall into stopping. Contaminated people start to behave like cockroaches and to seek the dark and wet places. A man and a woman decide to remain, and communicate by the hole between their two apartments.

Data sheet

Title: The Hole
original Title: Dong
Realization: Tsai Ming-liang
Scenario: Tsai Ming-liang and Yang pi-ying
Music: Grace Chang
Photography: Liao PEN-jung
Country of origin: Taiwan, France
Kind: Drama, musical film, science fiction
Lasted: 95 minutes
Comings out date: May 1998 (Cannes festival), March 24th 1999 (France)

Distribution

Yang Kuei-mei : the woman
Lee Kang-sheng: the man
Miao Tien: the customer
Tong Hsiang-chu: the plumber
Flax Hui-Chin: the neighbor

Rewards

Price of best film at the time of the International festival of film of Chicago 1998 Nominated
with the Palm of gold to the Cannes festival 1998

External bonds

Critical on Light!

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