“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.