#19 3 times Edward Yang

2 unreleased films:
Confusion in Confucius
Mahjong

His latest masterpiece

Yi Yi

Revealed to the general public with Yi Yi (winner of the Best Director award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival), Edward Yang, a leading figure of the New Taiwanese Cinema, left a lasting mark on cinema between the two centuries with a body of work at the crossroads of Chinese, Japanese, American, and European New Wave influences. He, who knew so well how to film women and the big city, proved capable of seamlessly blending historical tragedy and intimate chronicle, slapstick comedy, emotion, and critical reflection. His untimely death in 2007 left behind a singular oeuvre, a radical departure from the exoticism that had propelled Asian cinema to the forefront of the international stage. In seven feature films, he delivered a vision of the world unparalleled in global production, earning him the friendship and admiration of the biggest names in world cinema, but also the wrath of political and financial authorities, whom he relentlessly denounced. This small book includes the chapters devoted to Confusion in Confucius , Mahjong and Yi Yi in the book The Cinema of Edward Yang by Jean-Michel Frodon, published by Carlotta Films.

Before heading Cahiers du Cinéma until 2009, Jean-Michel Frodon was a journalist and critic at Le Point , then Le Monde . He is the author of numerous books devoted to cinema, notably to Hou Hsiao-hsien, Woody Allen, Gilles Deleuze, Robert Bresson, and Abbas Kiarostami.