LAB CLASSICS: YI YI (25TH ANNIVERSARY)
This September, our distribution company Odyssey Classics is proud to bring Edward Yang’s meditative masterpiece Yi Yi back to cinemas. Few films have balanced such breadth of experience—adulthood, adolescence, and aging—with such restraint and grace. Warm, sprawling, and dazzling, this intimate epic is one of the undisputed masterworks of the new century, now returning to cinemas in a brand-new 4K restoration to celebrate its 25th anniversary.
Edward Yang’s contemporary classic Yi Yi is a luminous, meditative portrait of a middle-class Taipei family quietly unraveling and evolving across the span of a single year. It opens with a wedding and closes with a funeral, bookending a mosaic of everyday moments rendered with exquisite emotional precision. At its center is NJ, a weary father navigating professional disillusionment and the bittersweet pull of an old love, while his son Yang-Yang seeks truth through the lens of his camera, hoping to capture what others cannot see. Yang’s direction is gentle yet unflinching, finding transcendence in the banal and heartbreak in the spaces between words.
Join us on Wednesday, September 17th, for a special early preview featuring an introduction and much more…
