Master filmmaker follows a woman at a bus station. These are all the ingredients for a captivating film. Tribute to Puccini, whom we neither see nor hear.
A minor tour de force and only a true master can make it look simple: we follow a woman at the hectic Puduraya bus station in Kuala Lumpur; Puccini composed Madame Butterfly. The relationship between that opera and Tsai's film seems a mystery, but is not unfathomable.