I Don`t Want to Sleep Alone

Directed by : Tsai Ming-Liang

Directed by Tsai Ming-Liang (THE WAYWARD CLOUD, VIVE L`AMOUR).

Homeless on the streets of Kuala Lumpur, Hsiao Kang is robbed, beaten and left for dead; he is found and nursed by Rawang, an immigrant worker, who lives in the shell of a modernist building abandoned during construction. Rawang`s feelings for his patient may or may not be sexual, but there`s definitely something like lust in the eyes of Chyi, a waitress in a run-down old coffee shop, when they light upon the recovering Hsiao Kang. And so a triangle forms as a blanket of noxious fog settles on the city and everyone has trouble breathing. Simultaneously erotic and comical, the film underpins director Tsai`s deadpan allegory with hints of social realism.

I DON’T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE was one of seven films commissioned for the Wiener Mozart New Crowned Hope Festival, Vienna 2006.

TRAILER: Click here.