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As Strand Releasing further increases its 2007 library, co-presidents Marcus Hu and Jon Gerrans picked up another of director Tsai Ming-liang ’s films I Don’t Want To Sleep Alone aka Hei yan quan.
The quirky comedy follows Hsiao-kang ( Shiang-chyi Chen ), a homeless Chinese man who is rescued and taken in by Bangladeshi workers following a brutal attack. Following a night on an old mattress with one of the workers, Hsiao-kang finds himself attempting to recover amidst the attractions of 3 amorous women who make their way into the small apartment as a thick and putrid haze descends on the city.
In the artistic tone of previous Tsai Ming-liang works, the director utilizes ordinary items in evocative ways. Previous Tsai Ming-liang work included umbrellas and watermelons, but this time around the director chooses to work an old mattress and gas masks with the same vigor and the same result. Fortissmo Films handled Tsai Ming-liang’s project as well as Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Syndromes And A Century, both of which played in competition in Venice as well as Toronto. Both films were also commissioned by the City of Vienna’s New Crowned Hope series.
