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Set on the cusp of the new millennium, The Hole presents a Taipei in the throes of a mysterious pandemic. In an area beset by endless rain and rendered sparse by mass evacuations, two remaining residents – a man (Lee Kang-sheng) and a woman (Yang Kuei-mei, star of Vive L’Amour 1994) – in a crumbling apartment building make a connection through a hole in his apartment floor and her ceiling. So often searching for human connection, Tsai’s characters here remain outwardly reticent but their inner lives are now given voice through vivacious musical numbers set to songs by mid-century Hong Kong pop idol Grace Chang. Melancholic and sumptuously languorous, The Hole is the most openly romantic and transcendentally hopefully of all of Tsai’s features.

Ages 15+