Three Times
Love is the central theme in this collection of three stories set in different years -- 1911, 1966 and 2005. In the first tale, a man leaves his true love to serve in the army. When he returns, he finds that his girlfriend has disappeared, so he sets out to find her. A man develops an unlikely bond with two women in the second tale; and four Taipei teens relieve their angst with technology and sex in the last story. Shu Qi and Chang Chen star.
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My thoughts about this film are conflicted. On the one hand, I really appreciate what Hsiao-hsien Hou tried to put together here. On the other hand, I don't think he did it all that particularly well. That's probably too strong, since I do think the first and third stories were well conceived and executed. The second, however, was a disaster. I say that only because it irritated me to no end that he would go to the trouble of making it a silent film, since the story itself takes place in 1911, presumably, and yet he still shot it in color and with all the other advantages of modern day filmmaking technology. It didn't work, and felt extremely gimmicky. Comically gimmicky. As I said though, the other two stories were both rather beautiful in their simplicity and emotion. All three stories, in fact, were completely emotion driven, lacking considerably in dialog and relying very heavily on music to relay the message. So while I enjoyed the minimalism of it all and found the performances to be top-notch, particularly Shu Qi's, who is smoking gorgeous by the way, that middle story nearly ruined the whole production for me. I suspect most people will not enjoy it either.- Photo Heathen