Product Details

• Actors: Lee Kang-Sheng, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Lu Yi-ching, Yang Juei-mei, Yozakura Sumomo
• Directors: Tsai Ming-Liang
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: Chinese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Strand Releasing
• DVD Release Date: June 10, 2008
• Run Time: 114 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001725YZG
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #73,551 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Wayward Cloud" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Strand Releasing Release Date: 06/10/2008 Run time: 114 minutes Rating: Ur

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fun musical with silent relationships., November 12, 2009

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Jason Pratt "J-son" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Wayward Cloud (DVD)

Wayward Cloud as I been reading is mostly described as slow film with way to much sex in it. Ok, but, the sex in this film is in no way sexual. If you're buying, renting or barrowing this movie do not watch it as a sexual film or as a piece art erotica. It's not Swimming Pool. It's a film exploring the separation of people through the digital age.

In the film, the main female character is not in anyway involved in pornography but has sexual interest in her old friend which happens to be a porn star. He though isn't able to express his sexual attraction to her because he has absolutely no interest in sex. Sex being his profession and not his pleasure. So he escapes into surreal fantasy of musical sequences. Which happen to be some of the funniest dance sequences I've ever seen.

That said the film is slow, poetic and completely captivating. I couldn't look away. I've seen this film now a few times, each time I've found myself captured by the silent relationship of the characters. This film is not for everyone, not at all. It's for the people interested in Art Films and if you're a person that doesn't scare because some one naked on screen then it wouldn't hurt. But this film is great. Its ability to capture and effect the viewer is more effective than any films coming out now. And it being an almost silent film helps it being a foreign film. Almost no subtitles.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Art, September 12, 2009

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John B. Goode "JBG" (Earth) - See all my reviews
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Viewers should take heed of the director Tsai Ming-liang's creed. He creates art and not movies, and this certainly isn't a movie in the way we think of movies. This movie does tell a story, sort of. But the movie really is a series of little-dialoged vignettes interspaced with musical numbers, that may or may not have anything to do with the story.

The story is about a man (a seemingly unenthusiastic porn actor) and a woman who meet and have an affair during drought stricken Taiwan. There is very little spoken dialog throughout. It's definitely not your regular movie which moves along through speech and actions of the actors. Instead, we are shown scenes. Tsai Ming-liang has won numerous awards at film festivals and is widely acclaimed, so who I am to say whether this movie is good or not. I can only say that it is my personal opinion that I thought the musical numbers were great, but the vignettes were very slow. And considering that about half the vignettes were sex scenes, that's saying something.

5.0 out of 5 stars C'mon Y'all, October 9, 2010

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J. Bowler (Florida) - See all my reviews
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I loved this movie. I think others are way too serious about it in their reviews. What this movie is, is an "adult" Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello in "How to Stuff a Wild Asian." This is a beautiful, fun, comical and sexy movie with the best ending I have ever seen. So lighten up, y'all and just relax and enjoy it.