The Wayward Cloud

Name: The Wayward Cloud
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Comedy, Musical
Released: February 23, 2007
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 45

2007

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: February 23, 2007

Summary: A surreal musical set against the backdrop of a Taiwanese drought.

Director: Ming-liang Tsai

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Comedy, Musical

Runtime: 112 min

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Empire David Parkinson

Wrongly branded misogynist by PC kneejerkers, this is a scathing assault on the exploitative nature of pornography and the emptiness of sex without love. Read full review

Time Out London Wally Hammond

The film’s meandering, surrealist-kissed, early scenes dance nicely in time with his urban protagonist’s disconnected, existential malaise. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

The director is, you won't be surprised to learn, Tsai Ming-laing, whose deadpan humor and minimalist lensing has made him a god among film geeks. Read full review

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[A] highly idiosyncratic semi-musical. Read full review

A.O. Scott

It feels willed, aggressive and unconvincing -- clammy rather than cool -- in a way that suggests artistic frustration rather than discovery. The water shortage may be a metaphor for the director’s creative desiccation, which his admirers can only hope is temporary. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Tsai's obvious disgust at the sex is part of what makes the film so unpleasant; he remains a brilliant original, but this is a parody of his gifts. Read full review

Nathan Lee

The Wayward Cloud fails as allegory, human story, anti-porn screed, postmodern musical, and even formal delight (Tsai's emptied-out aesthetic has never felt so empty, his mannerisms so pointlessly mannered), but it seems to have worked well enough as a necessary purge. Read full review

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MartyJ.

Feb 24, 2007

This is probably the best Tsai´s. A perfect combination of some pieces of musical and a great drama. I don´t know why this great great great film received such negative criticism, but let me tell you something, when people like Iñárritu are winning empty prizes This is probably the best Tsai´s. A perfect combination of some pieces of musical and a great drama. I don´t know why this great great great film received such negative criticism, but let me tell you something, when people like Iñárritu are winning empty prizes with stupid movies, Tsai thinks about the cinema with intelligence and only obtained the commentaries you can see above, the situasion is even worst as I think.… Expand

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