While he was traveling inspace, Yang spoke to twoastronauts aboard theInternationalSpace Station, which isorbiting the earth, AmericanastronautEdwardLuandRussiancosmonautYuriMalenchenko.
Director and actress Liv Ullmann headed the 10-member Cannes jury, which included directors Terry Gilliam and EdwardYang and actresses Julia Ormond and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
In the nearly four-hour span of this vast Proustian memory piece, from 1991, EdwardYang meticulously delineates the anguish of young people in Taipei in 1959 and the gang violence that pervades their lives.