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08/03/06
Three Times (2006)
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Reviews Counted:50
Fresh:43
Rotten:7
Average Rating:7.8/10
Consensus: Slowly paced, understated, and exquisitely shot, these are three lovely odes to love and longing.
Theatrical Release:Apr 26, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: The film features three different stories of love and memory through three time periods, 1966, 1911 and 2005. The first, "A Time for Love," hinges on the meeting of soldier boy Chen with pool hall... [More]
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Reviews for Three Times
[The first segment's] long-take linearity and use of classic Western pop songs (especially "Rain and Tears") is wondrously hypnotic and just about perfect.
10/08/05
Hou Hsiao Hsien is quite simply one of the world's premier filmmakers yet his films are lucky to play a few festival dates here in the U.S.
10/28/06
For arthouse cinema fans only. No one should wander into this by mistake. Hou Hsiao-hsien's slow, subtle, methodical work is not for mainstream audiences.
03/17/06
While he's never received the same adulation in the West as Wong Kar-Wai ... Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien is his equal when it comes to mapping desire and loss.
05/02/06
All the magic in the world is in the first section.
04/25/06
A ravishing triptych spanning a century of Taiwanese history, in which love remains eternally elusive.
09/14/06
If you are easily lulled into a sensuous rhythm of pure cinematic languor, this will satisfy. If not, you may be banging your head against the back of your seat.
03/01/07
This is a fascinating exercise in utilising style to make subtle psychological and political statements.
08/04/06
An emotionally understated giant of a love story.
09/30/06
Hsiao-Hsien reinforces his excellent cinematography with a bold use of music, featuring The Platters' Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, but ultimately the running time could have been halved and he would still have made his point.
08/01/06
Parts One and Two in 'Three Times' are a stately reflection on how epoch and circumstance influence action and reaction.
04/24/06
Starring two of Asia's most handsome performers, Three Times, is as always rich in style and form, but only intermittently involving or emotionally touching
05/30/05
This film was designed to win film festival prizes and leave the regular audiences in the dust.
05/01/06
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08/30/09
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.
07/07/06
Like Wong Kar-wai, Hou's interest in the unspoken nature of desire means his movie is sensually alive to the way love overwhelms and transforms one's experience of the world.
12/24/05
Top CriticHou captures that new couple exuberance in a way few films have, and the climatic moment here is as magical as they come.
10/04/05
Is there another filmmaker who can so fluidly celebrate the moment as well as the epoch, and do so in the same shot?
04/25/06
Top CriticWhile it's impossible to deny that the film is interesting and unique, it's not the kind of motion picture that will cause the average viewer to run out and urge his friends to make a trip to one of the obscure art houses where it's playing.
04/25/06
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