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Good Bye, Dragon Inn

Drama Set almost entirely in a crumbling movie theater on its final night, acclaimed filmmaker Tsai Ming-Liang ("What Time Is It There?") crafts an elegant and tender valentine to the pleasures of moviegoing and the death of a cinematic age. Run by a lonely female ticket clerk (Chen Shiang-Chyi) and a young projectionist (Lee Kang-Sheng), the theater shows King Hu's 1967 martial arts epic "Dragon Inn" before darkening its screen forever. A ... [+]
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United States
Village Voice
"A movie of elegant understatement and considerable formal intelligence."
United States
Chicago Tribune
"A bizarre minimalist epic that will either transport or infuriate, it's defiantly, exquisitely eccentric."
United States
Chicago Tribune
"A bizarre minimalist epic that will either transport or infuriate, it's defiantly, exquisitely eccentric."
United States
Variety
"This feels like short film material stretched exasperatingly thin but nonetheless casts a certain sad spell, graced by moments of droll observational humor."
United States
San Francisco Chronicle
"An idiosyncratic, oddball movie that is funny and moody." 
Spain
FilmAffinity
According to director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 'the best film of the last 125 years.' 
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