In this French film that explores the boundaries between art and obscenity, an aging pornographer (Jean-Pierre Leaud) gets back in the game. watch
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Length: 01:35
Posted: 10/30/2009
Foreign trailer for Face, which screened at the 2009 Hawaii International Film Festival.
A filmmaker is attempting to complete an ambitious project in the midst of a family tragedy in this self-referential drama from writer and director Tsai Ming-Liang. Hsaio-Kong (Lee Kang-Sheng) is a director from Taiwan who is soon to begin shooting his next picture, a stylized adaptation of Salome, in France, though first he has to help his elderly mother (Lu Yi-Ching) with some plumbing problems. Hsaio-Kong arrives in Paris to discover his producers have cast a well-known model with no acting experience (Laetitia Casta) in the leading role, which adds to the challenge of working in a language in which he's not fluent and having a leading man (Jean-Pierre Leaud) who seems to have lost his memory. Hsaio-Kong's troubles with the shoot are at once exacerbated and made insignificant when he learns of the death of his mother. watch
Director and playwright Neil LaBute is TCM's Guest Programmer joining Robert Osborne to introduce Francois Truffaut's The Four Hundred Blows, 1959, starring Jean-Pierre Leaud. watch
