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Three Times

Zui hao de shi guang

2005

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Shu Qi, Chang Chen, Mei Fang, Shu-Chen Liao ...

6.6

1,068

Romance. Drama The film follows a timeless couple in love as, enacted by the same performers, they take on different identities through three separate periods. In "A Time for Love," Chen (Chang Chen) meets May (Shu Qi) at his favourite pool hall. It is 1966 and their fleeting, dreamy romance is not defined so much by words as by the smoky atmosphere and the radio hits of the time. The Platters' "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and Aphrodite's Child's "Rain ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"All photographed with such visual beauty that watching the movie is like holding your breath so the butterfly won’t stir (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Hou Hsiao-hsien's hypnotically beautiful cinematic trilogy 'Three Times' doesn't just illuminate faces and objects; it seems to fill them up, as if they were lighted from within."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"For its reticence, its control, its quietism, for its formal daring (...) for its serene mystery, Hou Hsiao-Hsien's new film deserves to be seen (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"This is a fascinating exercise in utilising style to make subtle psychological and political statements (...) [It] doesn't always avoid a melodrama that undermines its artistic integrity (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"It's the intricate formal and thematic relation of the three parts that defines the film's beauty and makes it such a passionate meditation on youth, love, and freedom in relation to history."	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"Of the three, only the first, 'A Time For Love,' achieves real transcendence (...) Though the last two segments have merit; they just lack distinction."	NEU

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