– Critics’ Choice Awards [Best Original Screenplay]
– Alliance of Women Film Journalists [Best Screenplay, Original]
– Atlanta Film Critics Society [Best Screenplay]
– Chicago Indie Critics [Best Original Screenplay] – empate
– Columbus Film Critics Association [Best Original Screenplay]
– Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics [Best Screenplay]
– Georgia Film Critics Awards [Best Original Screenplay]
– Hollywood Critics Association [Best Original Screenplay]
– Houston Film Critics [Best Screenplay]
– Kansas City Film Critics Circle [Best Original Screenplay]
– Los Angeles Film Critics Association [Best Screenplay]
– New York Film Critics Online [Best Screenplay]
– North Dakota Film Society [Best Screenplay]
– Oklahoma Film Critics Circle [Best Original Screenplay]
– Online Association of Female Film Critics [Best Original Screenplay] – empate
“
Thank you for the days / those endless days, those sacred days you gave me” So begins the classic 1968 single by the Kinks, and Tsai Ming-Liang has an apposite poster tagline here if he needs it. But altering any one element of this immaculate comeback feature––say, putting this very track against the closing credits––would be heresy, especially when it already contains a beautiful use of diegetic music in the theme from Chaplin’s
Limelight. I was lucky enough to see his tender, spellbinding new film at BFI London’s in-person, distanced screenings, and strongly hope others are afforded that pleasure when things open again in 2021––when it will most certainly appear on TFS’s list for the second year running. –