Wu Nien-jen (left) and Jonathan Chang in ''Yi Yi.''
(Winstar Cinema via AP)
In Yang's hands, restricted viewpoints showed much
Wu Nien-jen (left) and Jonathan Chang in ''Yi Yi.''
(Winstar Cinema via AP)
The restricted viewpoint: a carefully selected angle of vision, from which as much is hidden as revealed. Aching for a better look at what we are deliberately prevented from seeing, we must strive all the harder to complete the picture on our own. Contemporary international cinema, from Taiwan to Iran to Romania, has been defined by an insistence on limiting ... (Full article: 991 words)
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