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The Hole
Directed by
Tsai Ming-liang
1998
1h 35m
Drama
,
Fantasy
,
and more
7.4
84%
84%
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While never-ending rain and a strange disease spread by cockroaches ravage Taiwan, a plumber makes a hole between two apartments and the inhabitants of each form a unique connection, enacted in musical numbers.
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Cast of The Hole
Yang Kuei-mei
The Woman Downstairs
Lee Kang-sheng
The Man Upstairs
Miao Tian
The Customer at Market
Hui-Chin Lin
Neighbor
Lin Kun-huei
The Kid
Tong Hsiang-Chu
The Plumber
Chen Shiang-Chyi
(voice)
Daphne Han
(voice)
Bo-Chin Wei
(voice)
Jacques Picoux
(voice)
Yee Chih-yen
(voice)
Lu Yi-ching
(voice)
Tsai Ming-liang
Director / Writer
Pi-ying Yang
Writer
Peggy Chiao
Producer
The Hole Ratings & Reviews
Film Threat
Noah Schwartz
Despite a strong premise, powerful visuals, and excellent performances, I could not even grasp what it was trying to say by the end.
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
Tsai's Kafakaesque existential nightmare turns quarantine into a uniquely harrowing love story, its digressions into abstraction in turn terrifying and rapturous.
Film Inquiry
Lee Jutton
With its flashes of humor and music, The Hole is a disturbingly timely depiction of humanity in crisis as well as a reminder that there are always places to find light if you squint hard enough through the gloom.
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
The Hole is a near-perfect summation of that approach, making something both plaintive and flamboyant out of an odd, small concept that requires little beyond his two favorite actors.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Christy Lemire
It's a fascinating combination of reality and the fantastical notion of the ways in which we cope.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
The feelings that "The Hole" awakens will be recognizable to anyone, even if no one else could possibly have made it.
WBUR’s Arts & Culture
Sean Burns
A story of lonely hearts in quarantine, longing for love amid the day-to-day drudgery of life during lockdown.
San Francisco Examiner
Jeffrey M. Anderson
In a restored re-release, "The Hole" proves to be an eerily prophetic and timely movie, perhaps better now than it ever was.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
I tend to think it's good, if you can appreciate what it sets out to be. My problem is that it's representative of a type of filmmaking I can't appreciate and don't enjoy.
Slant Magazine
Keith Uhlich
An illuminating, musical embrace for the ages.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A minimal story that is too thin for a feature film.
MovieMartyr.com
Jeremy Heilman
The humor and ennui that Tsai's vision of dystopia evokes is both unique and compelling.
Matinee Magazine
Chuck Rudolph
Cheerfully postulates the end of the world as an invitingly loony escapade.
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