Cinematic Siblings

Films are frequently in dialogue with one another. Connections, from unmistakable to the unexpected, exist between works based on the same story or films with similar thematic or aesthetic concerns. Our Cinematic Siblings invite audiences to discover how no film stands alone.

Dragon Inn & Goodbye, Dragon Inn

In Goodbye, Dragon Inn, Tsai Ming-liang constructs an elegant miseenabyme: several people, including two aging actors from King Hu’s Dragon Inn, attend a final screening of that film in a Taipei cinema on the
brink of closure. While Dragon Inn showcases martial-arts grace in nearconstant movement in the distant past, Goodbye, Dragon Inn emphasizes the stillness and quiet melancholy of today.