https://notesonfilm1.com/2021/05/21/hou-hsiao-hsien-8-dust-in-the-wind-1986/
A beautiful film, a continuation of a cycle of autobiographical films (The Boys From Fengkuei, A Summer at Grandpa's). We continue our discussion of framing, ellipses, cinema, letters, the country and the city, heartbreak and exploitation, and all those other formal and thematic elements that make Hou's cinema so great.
