December 19, 2007
This film is about emotion, not plot. Poetic and beautiful to watch.
Qi Shu,
Chen Chang,
Lee Pei-Hsuan,
Huange Ruo-shi,
Liao Ling-tzu
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Millennium Mambo director Hou Hsiao-hsien explores the ever-changing cycle of love in this collection of three romantic stories set in 1911, 1966, and 2005 and utilizing the same actors in all three t... read more
DVD Release Date: September 26, 2006
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September 14, 2008[font=Century Gothic]"Three Times" contains three stylish vignettes set in Taiwan in 1966(Time for Love), 1911(Time for Freedom) and 2005(Time for Youth), each starring Qi Shu and Chen Chang playing characters in differing states of infatuation. Each story was made in an attempt... read more
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January 31, 2011最好的時光 is carefully emotionally balanced Taiwanese film nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festivalis. The director of this wonderfully executed story triptich is Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Featuring three chronologically separate stories... read more
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January 21, 2011"Three Times" is a very slow pace picture based on three different stories and three different time periods. Hou Hsiao-hsien's main focus here is the growing fondness of love, communication, and human emotions. All done almost effortlessly.
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June 11, 2006Stunning and heartbreaking, the masterful film shows how much can be communicated by a nervous giggle, a resigned removal of an earring, or tightly clasped hands around a waist. Shu Qi is gloriously showcased in three different roles, first as the blushing ingenue, then the quiet... read more
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September 11, 2008loved it, awesome, Qi Shu is amazing in this. So believable in all 3 times, she is a great actress. I hope we get to see her in another EL movie besides Transporter.
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August 28, 2008a film that covers how love and cinema have changed over the ages. another fine piece of cinema bu Hsiao-hsien Hou.
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September 23, 2007Too artsy for my taste. As other reviewers have noted, there is minimal dialog...which makes the movie drag. I did, however, like how each story was done in the style of the era it was supposed to be from. I also liked the first two stories, but there is no real link between the ... read more
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February 18, 2007this movie is interesting and hard to follow. Its good for a chinese romance foriegn film. but like i said, its hard to follow
Critic Reviews
September 14, 2006
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
July 7, 2006
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle
A film to get lost in, a fragmentary, impressionistic trilogy of fleeting moments of love that is one of the best films of the year. Full Review
June 23, 2006
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Seen in isolation, the first episode has the most satisfying plot and the last the least. But the film's achievement lies mostly in the beautifully articulated similarities and differences among the t... Full Review
June 23, 2006
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Three varieties of love: unfulfilled, mercenary, meaningless. All photographed with such visual beauty that watching the movie is like holding your breath so the butterfly won't stir. Full Review
June 22, 2006
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Great cinema, pop romance that carries a special charge. Full Review
May 19, 2006
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
Can a film be exquisite and, at the same time, less than one hoped for? This question arose as Three Times unfolded. Full Review
May 12, 2006
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
The deceptive simplicity of these vignettes, written by Chu Tien-wen, throws into relief Hou's formidable storytelling strengths and visual acuity -- his way with actors, his subtlety and expressiveness. Full Review
May 3, 2006
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Do Hou's films deserve to be seen? Absolutely, if only to end the myth that they're too perfect for this world. Full Review
April 28, 2006
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News
... a lyrical, subtle, chaste and nearly wordless romance between a giggly pool-hall hostess and a former customer on a one-night leave from the military. Full Review
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