Cinéma, de notre temps (TV Series) HHH, portrait de Hou Hsiao-hsien (1996) User Reviews

Pursued by a no-doubt-adoring, gangling Olivier Assayas...

[nunculus · 23 August 2000]

...Hou Hsiao-hsien walks around his native Taiwan and conveys the historicizing and sociological imperatives of his movies. What's cool is that he's much more of a gum-chewing tough guy and a strutting cock than his films would let on. Like Hou's work, Assayas' documentary feels anthropology-seminar-like, smarter than one is used to, and very nearly eternal.