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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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11/11/06
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
This film was designed to win film festival prizes and leave the regular audiences in the dust.
05/01/06
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 CriticFilmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien tries to tell three tales of romance during different parts of the 20th and 21st centuries. But he winds up stretching a modestly interesting premise out too long -- over more than two hours.
06/09/06
Carefully crafted and bereft of dialogue, Three Times sets the bar high with its opening salvo but can't sustain the momentum.
09/01/06
In spite of its undeniable aesthetic and cinematic value, though, the film lacks the emotional engagement and social importance of [the director's] classic work of the 1980s and early '90s.
10/06/05
According to one American critic, Three Times is 'why cinema exists.' Only if you think that cinema has no higher calling that presenting a long series of gorgeously lit closeups of beautiful actresses are you likely to agree.
04/27/06
Top Critic[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
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