Nobody titles their film “Eel” if they don’t want critics to reach for the adjective “slippery,” and Chu Chun-Teng’s woozily gorgeous first feature invites it from the off. Its story, slender but ...

Red and blue and hot all over, “Eel” demands, like many a great, swarming desire, to be felt rather than analyzed, indulged rather than questioned, as it pulses and ripples through the system.