Bei qing cheng shi (A City of Sadness) Reviews
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Film4
The film is so complicated that you can understand why a number of Taiwanese magazines published family trees to help viewers follow each character's story, but if you can get to grips with it this is a fascinating history lesson.
July 4, 2006
Time Out
Top CriticHou turns in a masterpiece of small gestures and massive resonance; once you surrender to its spell, the obscurities vanish.
June 24, 2006
Beautiful family saga by the great Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien.
December 12, 2002
Jeremy Heilman
MovieMartyr.com
MovieMartyr.com
An ambitiously conceived, sometimes frustratingly elliptical family chronicle that shows one family's experience immediately following the Japanese occupation of the nation.
Full Review
| Original Score: 4/4
December 11, 2002
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