Oltre la ritualità cinematografica: Goodbye, Dragon Inn di Tsai Ming-liang

The article analyzes the film “Goodbye, Dragon Inn” (2003) by the Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang. Completely set in a movie theater that screens his last show, “Goodbye, Dragon Inn” depicts with irony and lyricism the decline of the spectatorial ritual in cinema as well as the decline of cinema as a symbolical and imaginary space. The film shows the farewell of cinema to cinema, the slow disappearance of its hobbling (in)existence, which ghosts inhabiting the movie theater are the evidence of.