My New Friends (1995)
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Subtitles for: My New Friends (1995)
Tsai interrupted his pre-production for The River to make this pioneering documentary for Taiwan's nascent AIDS-awareness campaign. Ignoring instructions to 'play down the gay angle', he centres the film on his own very candid conversations with two HIV+ young men. Sadly the identities of the interviewees have to be concealed, and so the freewheeling camerawork focuses most often on Tsai himself; but the sense of rapport between the director and his 'new friends' is palpable and very moving, even to Western viewers already only too familiar with these issues.
| Rate | ★ 5.5/10 (2 votes) |
| Genre | Documentary TV Movie |
| Duration | 56m |
| Country | Taiwan |
| Release | 01 Jan 1995 |
| Language | ZH |
| Director | Tsai Ming-liang |
| Keywords | aids |
| IMDb | tt0275794 ↗ |
| Type | Movie Released |
