This is no normal road trip: genius auteur Jean-Luc Godard's tenth feature in six years is a stylish mash-up of consumerist satire, politics, and comic-book aesthetics, as well as a violent, zigzag tale of, as Godard called them, "the last romantic couple."

This is no normal road trip: genius auteur Jean-Luc Godard's tenth feature in six years is a stylish mash-up of consumerist satire, politics, and comic-book aesthetics, as well as a violent, zigzag tale of, as Godard called them, "the last romantic couple."

Winner of the Golden Lion at Venice in 1989, Hou's panoramic tale takes in the four tumultuous years from 1945, when Japan surrendered Taiwan to China at the end of World War II, to 1949, when Chiang Kai Shek established his Nationalist government on the island after fall of the mainland to the Communists.