The Wayward Cloud

(2005)

★ 6 IMDb · 132 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Year: 2005

Runtime: 114 мин

Country: Taiwan, France

Director: 蔡明亮

Cast: 李康生, 陳湘琪, 陸弈靜, Куэй-мэй Ян, 夜桜すもも, Lam Fai-Kan, Siu Wun-Man, Shu-Mei Hung, Huan-Wen Hsiao, Hui-Xun Lin

Plot

Hsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket.

Metaphor, allegory. There's a drought in Taiwan. Watermelon are abundant and become juice, food, something to share with a guest, and an aphrodisiac. In a large building of flats, Hsiao-Kang and Shiang-chyi's paths cross; she knew him when he sold watches, now he acts in pornographic films. She scavenges for plastic water bottles. He bathes in the building's cistern. Fantasy song and dance numbers punctuate the characters' nearly aimless pursuits: she has lost her keys and he helps her find them; he naps in a park, she watches; he smokes on the floor beneath her kitchen table while she sits. His film-making continues. Can they connect?