Performance

Taipei Story

1 upcoming performance in New York

Edward Yang’s 1985 drama tracks a couple who have known each other since childhood, pulled apart as Taipei shifts under modernization and global pressure. One clings to memory and vanished routines; the other tries to live at the speed of a changing city. The film is a key title of New Taiwanese Cinema and received the critics’ prize at Locarno in 1985, helping introduce Yang’s work to international audiences before wider New York repertory circulation. Its clear-eyed approach treats urban growth as an intimate, daily force.