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Yi Yi: A One and a Two

Yi Yi

2000

Edward Yang

Wu Nien-jen, Elaine Jin, Kelly Lee, Jonathan Chang ...

7.6

2,877

Comedy. Drama Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through every-day quandaries. NJ is morose; his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank, his business partners make bad decisions against his advice, and he reconnects with his first love 30 years after he dropped her. His teenage daughter Ting-Ting watches emotions roil in ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"[A] lovely, absorbing film (...) In exchange for three hours of your time, 'Yi Yi' will give you more life."	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"[An] intimate masterpiece (...) Rarely have matters of the heart been handled with such self-effacing delicacy and grace"	POS
United States	Edward Guthmann SFGATE	"Edward Yang establishes himself as one of the premier filmmakers in the world today. Wise, delicate and impeccably performed"	POS
United States	Dennis Lim Los Angeles Times	"A work of remarkable delicacy and assurance, so detailed and fully inhabited that it seems to renew itself and its connection to the viewer with each encounter"	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"Yang's direction is so admirably restrained, it lends rich heft to everything."	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"[Yang] has been making masterful films in Taiwan for almost 20 years"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Only rarely is a film this observant and tender about the ups and downs of daily existence (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle	"Capturing the nuances of quotidian life may not be everyone's cup of tea (...) But in the context of this picture, one look is worth at least a thousand words (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ed Gonzalez Slant	"Masterpiece (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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