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The movie conveys the director's intensely personal struggle at the crossroads of large-scale history and private memory; with understatedly bitter irony, he depicts the birth of a nation at the price of a family's dissolution. October 6, 2014 | Full Review…
The movie conveys the director's intensely personal struggle at the crossroads of large-scale history and private memory; with understatedly bitter irony, he depicts the birth of a nation at the price of a family's dissolution.
Richard Brody
A City of Sadness is a great film, one that will be watched as long as there are people who care about the movies as an art. May 20, 2014 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
A City of Sadness is a great film, one that will be watched as long as there are people who care about the movies as an art.
Dave Kehr
Hou turns in a masterpiece of small gestures and massive resonance; once you surrender to its spell, the obscurities vanish. June 24, 2006 | Full Review…
Hou turns in a masterpiece of small gestures and massive resonance; once you surrender to its spell, the obscurities vanish.
Tony Rayns
It is worth the long wait for the resonance of 'A City of Sadness to emerge. August 30, 2004 | Full Review…
It is worth the long wait for the resonance of 'A City of Sadness to emerge.
Caryn James
Beautiful family saga by the great Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien. December 12, 2002 | Full Review…
Beautiful family saga by the great Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Watching 'A City of Sadness' will give you a feel for all the different ways that people, even to this day, disagree about how to tell the story of Taiwan's past. August 14, 2019 | Full Review…
Watching 'A City of Sadness' will give you a feel for all the different ways that people, even to this day, disagree about how to tell the story of Taiwan's past.
Anthony Kao
Hou Hsiao-Hsien's subtle compositions and meticulous pacing draw the viewer into the heart of the drama. May 20, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Hou Hsiao-Hsien's subtle compositions and meticulous pacing draw the viewer into the heart of the drama.
David Parkinson
A cinematic behemoth, something grand, incomplete, and sweeping. October 29, 2011 | Full Review…
A cinematic behemoth, something grand, incomplete, and sweeping.
Glenn Heath Jr.
A City of Sadness compassionately articulates the suppressed, silent despair of a people repeatedly victimised as they search for inclusion and cultural identification. July 30, 2010 | Full Review…
A City of Sadness compassionately articulates the suppressed, silent despair of a people repeatedly victimised as they search for inclusion and cultural identification.
Acquarello
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 | Full Review…
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.
Film4 Staff
An ambitiously conceived, sometimes frustratingly elliptical family chronicle that shows one family's experience immediately following the Japanese occupation of the nation. December 11, 2002 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
An ambitiously conceived, sometimes frustratingly elliptical family chronicle that shows one family's experience immediately following the Japanese occupation of the nation.
Jeremy Heilman
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