
Your Face. 2018. Taiwan. Directed by Tsai Ming-Liang. With Lee Kang-Sheng, Liu Chin-Hua, Huang Hsueh-Feng, Lin Yu-Jung. DCP. In Mandarin; English subtitles. 78 min.
Tsai Ming-Liang makes portrait shots of 13 individuals, including his regular actor Lee Kang-Sheng and Lee’s mother. Some speak of their pasts; one massages her face; one plays the harmonica; another dozes off. There is a lot of silence, fittingly accompanied by Ryuichi Sakamoto’s hypnotic, minimalist score. Subverting the talking-head documentary tradition, Tsai refocuses our gaze on the shifting light and the passage of time evident on these gentle faces.