Tsai Ming-Liang’s debut film “Rebels of the Neon God,” a youth-in-revolt story that’s finally being released to US theaters 23 years after its debut, is the director’s most accessible film. That will seem like a funny observation once you’ve seen it, because Tsai’s most accessible film is more unusual and uncompromising than any you’re likely to see this year. The movie starts with the offscreen sound of a tropical storm battering a city, then observes two teenage smartasses, Ah Tze (Chen Chao-jung) and Ah Bing (Jen Chang-bin), crowding into a rain-smeared phone booth and robbing the coin box with crude tools. Hardly a word passes between them. They’re both smoking the whole time; the cigarettes rarely leave their lips. The next … Read entire story.

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