A Force Unto Himself [on Hou Hsiao-hsien]

From the Chicago Reader (June 2, 2000). — J.R.

Films by Hou Hsiao-hsien
By Jonathan Rosenbaum
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

How significant is it that neither of the two greatest working narrative filmmakers is fluent in English? Not [...]
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