We haven’t heard from Chinese-born Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien since his 2015 wuxia epic “The Assassin.” Now, there is finally news on “Shulan River,” his long-developing drama.
Providing an update on his adaptation of the Hsieh Hai-meng novel (via IONCINEMA) Tsai revealed that he will begin scouting locations for the Shu Qi-led project starting next month when “spring is blooming.”
Taiwanese media is reporting that this new film will focus on an elderly father and his son. “It’s [also] a movie about a river goddess set in the modern era,” Hou said of Shulan River back in 2015 to Film Comment.
As mentioned, Hou is a master of his craft. His best-known films include “A City of Sadness,” “Flowers of Shanghai,” and “The Puppetmaster.” His style is as arthouse high-brow as it gets, but there’s a real beauty to his images that just sucks you right into its frames.