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— Days opens with a single still shot, bathed in a dim, somber blue. Writer-director Tsai Ming-liang’s penchant for gorgeous, disarming composition is immediately on display, as is his career-defining muse, Lee Kang-sheng. Lee has been the focal point of all of Tsai’s films, be it a musical narrative feature or a short in which he simply walks a cityscape in a red robe. After the 2013 Venice premiere of Stray Dogs, Tsai equivocally suggested it was time to retire. But the arrival of Days is anything but surprising…

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