Cecile Tang Shu Shuen

TIFF’s A Century of Chinese Cinema Review: The Arch (1969)

TIFF’s A Century of Chinese Cinema Review: The Arch (1969)

Besides its setbacks—low grade film stock, repetitious music, narrative imbalance—Cecile Tang Shu Shuen’s The Arch (1969) remains a visual masterpiece, whose formal rhetoric profoundly speaks to the inner dimensions of human existence. A film, in her words, about the “interior fe... Read More »