A Confucian Confusion / Mahjong: Two Films by Edward Yang (1994-1996)
de Edward Yang
Criterion - 18 août 2025
Titre Original :
Audio : Mandarin: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.0 (48kHz, 24-Bit)
Sous-titres : English
Durée : 4h09
Format : 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray - 2 movies / import US
Zone : 4K Blu-ray: Region free
2K Blu-ray: Region A
Genre : Romance, Comédie
Synopsis
In this pair of sharp, sprawling satires, one of Taiwan’s most celebrated filmmakers, Edward Yang, captures the anything-can-happen mood of Taipei at the end of the twentieth century. Made in between his epic dramas A Brighter Summer Day and Yi Yi, A Confucian Confusion and Mahjong find Yang applying a lighter but no less masterly touch to his explorations of human relationships in an increasingly globalized, hypercapitalistic world. These intricately constructed ensemble comedies—one set in a cutthroat corporate milieu, the other in a shady criminal underworld—reveal the absurdity and cynicism at the heart of modern urban life.
- New 4K digital restorations, with 5.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks
- Excerpts of director Edward Yang speaking after a 1994 screening of A Confucian Confusion
- New interview with editor Chen Po-wen
- New conversation between Chinese-cultural-studies scholar Michael Berry and film critic Justin Chang
- Performance of Yang’s 1992 play Likely Consequence
- PLUS: An essay by film programmer and critic Dennis Lim and a 1994 director’s note on A Confucian Confusion