"Filmmaking is kind of an addiction: the moment you fall into it, there is no way to climb out of it." -- Anthony Chen
5 Questions #14: The director of The Breaking Ice, Ilo Ilo, Wet Season and more
Anthony Chen delivers longing like no other filmmaker. It’s not just the characters that have a swoon, a heat, a reach… it inhabits the locations, the sets, the entire environment. He manages to infuse every one of his films with the sort of longing that lingers well past the film ends. The sweetest of sorrows, the happy sad, satisfying to never have ha…
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