Essential Cinema: Edward Yang

YI YI

Directed by Edward Yang

Japan/Taiwan, 2000, 2h 53min, DCP, In Mandarin, Min Nan, Hokkien, Japanese, and French with English subtitles

Essential Cinema  Edward Yang

AFS Cinema

6406 N I-35 Suite 3100 Austin, TX 78752

Pricing

$13.50 evening / $11 matinee (available M-F for shows before 6 PM)

$4 discounts for AFS MAKE & WATCH members. Free for LOVE & Impact Circle members.

Discounts for AISD educators and local high school & college students are available at the box office with a valid school ID.

“YI YI is ultimately a film that imparts its meaning and its impact through its exquisite sense of balance — between here and elsewhere, past and present, the ideal and the conditional, the mundane and the extraordinary. It is a film of, and about, grace. And that is a rare thing.”
—Kent Jones

“Calling YI YI a three-hour Taiwanese family drama is like calling CITIZEN KANE a film about a newspaper.”
—Nigel Andrews

The final film by Taiwanese master Edward Yang is an exploration of love and familial connections between a father, his teenage daughter, and his young son over the course of a few months. Yang’s extraordinary gift for storytelling and sensitive approach to love and connection elevate this into a compelling work of cinema.

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