I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone. 2006. Directed by Tsai Ming-Liang

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I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone. 2006. Malaysia/Taiwan/France/China/Austria. Directed by Tsai Ming-Liang. Courtesy Homegreen Films

I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone. 2006. Taiwan. Directed by Tsai Ming-Liang. With Lee Kang-Sheng, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Norman Atun. 35mm. In Mandarin, Malay, Bengali; English subtitles. 115 min.

I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone is Malaysia-born Tsai Ming-Liang’s first film set in Kuala Lumpur. Lee Kang-Sheng plays two characters: a drifter badly injured in a violent incident and a paralyzed man in a coma. Two caregivers, a Bangladeshi laborer who nurses the injured man back to health and a woman who attends to the needs of the comatose man, form a complicated web of misplaced romantic attractions with Lee’s characters. Meanwhile, the polyglot metropolis is swallowed by a heavy, choking smog. Original 35mm theatrical print courtesy of the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project

This film accompanies Tsai Ming-Liang: In Dialogue with Time, Memory, and Self.

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