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.
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10/28/06
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
Love is messy, desperate, inconclusive and wonderful -- even for little moments -- in any time. And Hou has done it justice with this new masterpiece.
05/04/06
The style is pure Hou: richly textured atmosphere, tiptoeing camerawork and long, languorous takes of scenes full of privileged moments of human activity.
07/13/06
The film is probably too slow, too silent and too long for most audiences. But look beyond the quietness, and you'll discover a three-gem jewel.
05/19/06
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
While 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
Top Critic... 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.
04/28/06
Top CriticAll the magic in the world is in the first section.
04/25/06
[Hou's] work gains significance due to his specifically tying this theme of love to Taiwan in particular, as opposed to just proposing a general essay on love.
12/03/06
a meditation on how words, poetry and music connect us to time, place and each other
04/30/06
Three Times is the kind of film...that requires the viewer to make an investment, both of intellect and of time, to appreciate it.
05/04/06
A triptych of unrequited romantic tales.
03/17/06
Top CriticA ravishing triptych spanning a century of Taiwanese history, in which love remains eternally elusive.
09/14/06
Top CriticLambent
08/30/09
A trilogy of desire from the Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien in which the same actress and actor play variations on lovers in three distinct historical periods.
04/25/06
Top CriticThree 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.
06/23/06
Top CriticI urge you to see the ineffably beautiful Three Times however you can, lest you go on thinking that Hou’s greatness is merely the supposition of obscurantist critics.
05/10/06
It's simply one of the most beautiful films he's made to date.
04/26/06
Do Hou's films deserve to be seen? Absolutely, if only to end the myth that they're too perfect for this world.
05/03/06
Top CriticAssembles all of the major settings of the last 20 years of Hou's career into a single portmanteau of miscommunication and frustrated ardor.
08/06/06
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