An old Taipei cinema is set to close. Its final denizens, a small and lonely group of strangers, settle into disparate corners and mental spaces, as King Hu’s Dragon Inn (1967) plays on screen for the last time. The disabled cashier hobbles down long subterranean corridors and tackles the steps up to the projection box to leave her sad gift for the elusive projectionist. Anonymous sex in the cinema or the men’s room proves just as elusive for a scrawny young Japanese visitor. Two old men watch and weep as the ghosts of their heyday cavort on the screen. We pass many long moments contemplating the emptiness of the room – until the empty cinema seems to be contemplating us. The film won FIPRESCI Prize in Venice and was screened at TIFF, New York and other festivals.

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