In Our Time is an anthology film directed by four Taiwanese New Wave directors. Though the four stories are obviously independent, I felt like that they present a single stream.
I'm pretty sure that Taiwanese New Wave directors are all shooting the movements of objects, including characters, in the camera. It is more of a setup than a capture. Even the movement of light seems set. This makes me feel such pleasant to watch their movies.
All four films are really wonderful, but the second one by Edward Yang and the fourth by Yi Chang are particularly good.
The fourth episode is wrapped up in Claude Bolling's music from Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio album. As soon as the story started, Sentimentale came out and it really stimulated me. It's just a fuss, but such emotions are poured into it.
I must begin to watch Edward Yang's another masterpiece, "That day, on the Beach."
