Eight-year-old Jonathan Chang is at the very heart of Edward Yang’s coruscating family drama Yi Yi, but his character, Yang Yang, spends much of the film in its peripheries – bearing witness to the sweet, sad and profound turns of the adult world without fully comprehending it.
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The peak of the series came at the end of the second instalment, which sees Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (Julie Delpy) flung back into each other’s paths in Paris after their initial chance encounter nine years before.
While Jesse kills time before catching his flight home, the pair listlessly discuss their lives, slowly realising over the course of the film’s brief 80 minutes that they’re head over heels in love.
At the end, Céline dances to Nina Simone, telling him: “Baby, you are going to miss that plane.” Jesse, unwilling to let Céline go for a second time, replies: “I know.” JS.
