Taiwan Auteurs Chung Mong-Hong, Tsai Ming-Liang Capture Recent History in Venice Films
Vivienne Chow In the acclaimed director Chung Mong-Hong’s latest dramatic offering, “The Falls,” a high school student is forced to confront the wounds of a strained relationship with her mother when the two of them are forced to stay at home because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Auteur Tsai Ming-Liang, on the other hand, takes the audience on a time machine in short film “The Night,” sending them back to one night during the fall of 2019, when Hong Kong was in the midst of the worst political turmoil it has ever seen.“The Falls” and “The Night” are the two offerings from Taiwan featured at this year’s Venice Film Festival.