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The subjects of love, sex, and lust in modern-day Taiwan are given a surreal, kaleidoscopic treatment in Tsai Ming-Liang's experimental feature film. The Wayward Cloud contains no plot per se, but rat... read more read more...her a succession of strange set pieces in which young lovers connect, disconnect, and attempt to find each other amidst a city water shortage. Consisting of nearly no dialogue, the film mixes the outrageous, the explicit, and the banal in a more radically experimental fashion than the director's previous efforts. ~ Michael Hastings, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 52 min.

Directed by: Ming-liang Tsai, Tsai Ming-Liang

Release Date: February 16, 2005

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DVD Release Date: June 10, 2008

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Flixster Reviews (196)

  • 366weirdmovies
    May 27, 2010
    366weirdmovies
    A porn stud romances a shy girl during a drought in Taiwan; four hallucinatory musical numbers describe the character's feelings. A very strange film mixing graphic sex, song and dance production numbers and almost no story development; give the filmmakers credit for trying some... read morething different, but it never jells and is dull most of the time. There are a few standout scenes (the opening watermelon sex scene), but like every shot in the movie they go on for far too long and end up diminishing their own impact.
  • Saxia
    July 25, 2008
    Saxia
    Wow this one is hard to rate.. It's one of the strangest movies I've seen in a long long time! But it's definitely worth watching. Nice camera work, and I liked the long and silent scenes. The sex sort of gets annoying after a while.
    What can I tell you about the silly songs? I... read more guess it works, they stay in your head (I'm not sure if you're going to be too thrilled about that), so in a sense you're the one who's providing the soundtrack for the movie :)
    I can't wait to see it again!
    Tsai Ming Liang,Asian,Wayward Cloud
  • gator681
    April 21, 2010
    gator681
    [font=Century Gothic]"The Wayward Cloud" is a sequel to "What Time Is It There?", set during a severe drought in Taiwan. The movie opens in corridors where a nurse and Shang-chyi(Shiang-chyi Chen) are going in different directions. In the next scene, the nurse is lying on a bed... read more with a watermelon between her legs. Enter Hsiao-Kang(Kang-sheng Lee) who is apparently now making a living starring in porn films, since he does make furious love with said watermelon. Shang-chyi has not been back from Paris for long because she still has not opened her suitcase. Having her keys accidentally paved over on the street does not help matters. On one trip to collect water, Shang-chyi runs across Hsiao-Kang who is sleeping in the park.[/font]
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    [font=Century Gothic]The director of "Wayward Cloud", Tsai Ming-liang, is one of the only directors I trust to making movies with little plot because of his great skill in setting the mood in the human comedies he makes. Also indicative of his films, is little dialogue, great sight gags and long static shots with more than one thing happening at the same time.(Well, the musical numbers are new.) The film says that even though there are certain basic elements we need in order to survive, quite a bit more is required in order to truly live. (But I still have no idea of what to make of the last sequence...) [/font]

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A.O. Scott
February 23, 2007
A.O. Scott, New York Times

The Wayward Cloud offers one plausible moral: If life hands you watermelons, make love to them.

V.A. Musetto
February 23, 2007
V.A. Musetto, New York Post

The Taiwanese sex musical The Way ward Cloud is notable for its bizarre uses of watermelons. I won't give you the details because my editor would just cut them out. Full Review

Nathan Lee
February 20, 2007
Nathan Lee, Village Voice

Tsai's emptied-out aesthetic has never felt so empty, his mannerisms so pointlessly mannered. Full Review

Dennis Schwartz
June 23, 2008
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Juicy surrealist film. Full Review

Chris Cabin
June 9, 2008
Chris Cabin, Filmcritic.com

The Wayward Cloud finds Ming-liang in a rut and unable to elevate his neon wilderness to the heights of the rest of his consistently fascinating oeuvre. Full Review

Kam Williams
June 8, 2008
Kam Williams, Sly Fox

Taiwanese titillation flick featurings watermelon as a metaphor. Full Review

Kam Williams
June 8, 2008
Kam Williams, NewsBlaze

A curiously-compelling and impossible to pigeonhole romantic romp which blurs the line between pornography and legit cinema in magnificent fashion. Full Review

Anthony Quinn
November 16, 2007
Anthony Quinn, Independent

Features the most explicit use of a watermelon ever filmed. Full Review

Tim Robey
November 16, 2007
Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph

So extravagantly, hilariously rude as to be almost indescribable. Full Review

Derek Malcolm
November 15, 2007
Derek Malcolm, This is London

It may be slow as a snail, but it leaves a trail. Full Review

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