Note: This screening has been cancelled due to a widespread power outage in Toronto.

TIFF continue their Edward Yang retrospective with a 4K DCP restoration of the Taiwanese director’s fifth feature, featuring an introduction from New Circle of Cinema programmer Ryan Krahn.

An edited Steve Gravestock description of the film observes:

“Sleek, chic, and hysterical, the film owes more to Preston Sturges than Michelangelo Antonioni, though all of the characteristic Yang themes are present — only this time there is a more luxurious feel to the proceedings. Taipei has a vibrant, cut-throat glamour here lacking in much Taiwanese cinema of the time. The film’s thesis — stated by an overly earnest, struggling writer — is that if Confucius returned to contemporary Taiwan, everyone would adore him, primarily because they consider him an influential and powerful fraud.”

This screening is free for TIFF Cinematheque members.