Yi Yi
Winner of the Best Director Award at Cannes, Yi Yi would be remarkable if only for the nuanced performances, or for the delicacy of the narrative, or for the gentleness and affection with which Edward Yang considers his characters: Together, these ingredients make it both irresistible and overwhelming.
A film of rare emotional precision and formal grace, Yi Yi is Edward Yang’s final completed feature and arguably his most beloved—a deeply felt, gently sprawling portrait of three generations of a Taipei family in quiet crisis. Middle-aged businessman NJ (played with understated depth by Wu Nien-Jen, a central figure of the New Taiwan Cinema) is facing personal and professional upheaval: his company is floundering, and an old flame has reappeared. Around him, his wife spirals into spiritual despair, his young daughter wrestles with guilt over her grandmother’s stroke, and his curious, observant son begins to glimpse the complications of adult life. Yi Yi unfolds like a perfectly calibrated timepiece—its emotional power accumulating through the smallest of moments. Winner of the Best Director award at Cannes in 2000, it returns to Film at Lincoln Center in a brand-new restoration. An NYFF38 Main Slate selection. A Janus Films release.
4K digital restoration carried out by Pony Canyon Inc., with analog and digital processes provided by Imagica Entertainment Media Services, Inc.
Lovely, absorbing. In exchange for three hours of your time, Yi Yi will give you more life.
—A.O. Scott, The New York Times
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