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It's a Dream

It's a Dream

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It's a Dream

2007

0h 15m

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Shot in an abandoned cinema in Malaysia, Tsai Ming-Liang's home country, It's a Dream evokes the filmmaker’s earliest encounters with cinema and recalls the golden age of Asian film culture. An extended version of the filmmaker's short created for the Canne Film Festival's "To Each His Own Cinema".

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Lee Kang-sheng

Lee Kang-sheng

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Directed by: Tsai Ming-liang
Written by: Tsai Ming-liang

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