My New Friends (1995)
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Original Title: 我新认识的朋友
Release Date: January 01, 1995
Runtime: 56 minutes
Budget: $0.0
Revenue: $0.0
Overview
Tsai interrupted his pre-production for The River to make this pioneering documentary for Taiwan's nascent AIDS-awareness campaign. Ignoring instructions to 'play down the gay angle', he centres the film on his own very candid conversations with two HIV+ young men. Sadly the identities of the interviewees have to be concealed, and so the freewheeling camerawork focuses most often on Tsai himself; but the sense of rapport between the director and his 'new friends' is palpable and very moving, even to Western viewers already only too familiar with these issues.
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TMDB Popularity: 0.55
