Tuesday | July 10, 2007 7:00 pm

A Drifting Life
(Chun hua meng lu)

Screening on Film

Directed by Lin Cheng-sheng.
With Lee Kang-sheng, Vicky Wei, Grace Chen.
Taiwan, 1996, 35mm, color, 123 min.

After his wife dies during childbirth, Ku-cheng (Lee) leaves his children behind in their rural village while he finds work on a construction site in the city. He develops a relationship with a widow but despite their intimacy, he refuses to remarry. Lin’s moving, mutli-generational debut feature is anchored by a strong performance from Tsai Ming-liang alter ego Lee Kang-sheng.