Yi Yi

"Yi Yi (which roughly translates to A One and A Two) is a film by Taiwanese director Edward Yang, often considered his masterpiece, unfolding over three contemplative hours. The story follows three generations of a middle-class family in Taipei going through difficult times. The father struggles with the instability of his job and confronts his life decisions; his wife decides to go on a retreat due to the distress of her mother falling into a coma; the daughter deals with first love and the guilt of her role in what happened to her grandmother; and the young son faces school troubles but processes his situation through photography as a hobby. It is a film that calmly and distantly weaves the different lives of each family member, each with their own problems, yet with repercussions that affect them all. But it also hides beautiful lessons in its symbolism full of poetry, especially in what it wants to tell us about photographing people from behind. Selected among the 100 best films of all time by The New York Times."