Goodbye South, Goodbye
1996, NR, 116 min.
Directed by Hou Hsiou-Hsien, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Ack Kao, Hsu Kuei-Ying, Lim Giong, Annie Shizuka Inoh.

With this film, director Hou moved his focus from the countryside to the loud, fast chaos of suburban Taipei. Moving shots (radically different from his earlier stationary camera setups) capture some of this sense of relentless modernity. The story looks at a circle of friends and their blunted entrepreneurial attempts and ambitions.

This article appears in November 17 • 2000.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.