Pig and Futari Coin Laundry
"Ambitious film depicting a trivial but important moment, in one cut."
Synopsis
A man washes a stuffed pig in a laundromat in Taipei and a woman waits for someone else. Like mass-produced pigs, this is a brief encounter, one of the many chance encounters in life, but what we learn about the two and the life of the city seeps in and plays a long aftertaste.
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