Event
The Hole [In-Person Only]
Wed Jan 17: 7.30pm PDT
Thu Jan 18: 7.30pm PDT
Fri Jan 19: 7.30pm PDT
Sat Jan 20: 4.30pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT
Sun Jan 21: 4.30pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT
$14 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 Member
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Tsai Ming-liang
Taiwan
1998
1h 29m
About
(Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan, 1998, 89 min, in Mandarin with English subtitles)
Set just prior to the start of the 21st century, this vaguely futuristic story follows two residents of a quickly crumbling building who refuse to leave their homes in spite of a virus that has forced the evacuation of the area. As rain pours down relentlessly, a single man is stuck with an unfinished plumbing job and a hole in his floor. This results in a very odd relationship with the woman who lives below him. Combining deadpan humor with an austere view of loneliness and a couple of unexpected musical numbers, Tsai Ming-Liang crafted one of the most original films of the 1990s.
Produced for French televisions 2000 Seen by series, this was originally broadcast in a 69-minute version called Last Dance. This longer version is the directors preferred cut.
The Hole, for all its sorrowful prescience, does not traffic in the customary pandemic-thriller idiom of paranoia and alarm A genius of deadpan comedy as well as a poet of urban anomie, Tsai fills his meticulously composed frames with revealing details that often double as sight gags funny, melancholy and finally entrancing. Justin Chang, The Los Angeles Times
The best movie of 2020and the most 2020 movie of the yearwas made in 1998. Its all brilliantly staged, existential slapstick about life during a very wet pandemic. Did I mention its a musical too? Bob Strauss, The San Francisco Chronicle (via Tweet)
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LocationNorthwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Ave.
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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Ticketing, concessions, cinemas, restrooms, and our public edit lab are located on Northwest Film Forum's ground floor, which is wheelchair accessible. We have a limited number of assistive listening devices available for programs hosted in our larger theater, Cinema 1. These devices are maintained by the Technical Director, and can be requested at the ticketing and concessions counter.
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If you have additional specific questions about accessibility at our venue, please contact our Patron Services Manager at maria@nwfilmforum.org
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