
A City of Sadness
1989, Drama, 2h 38m
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Cast & Crew
Wen-ching
Hinome

Wen-heung
Director
Writer
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Critic Reviews for A City of Sadness
All Critics (12) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (12)
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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… -
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… -
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… -
It is worth the long wait for the resonance of 'A City of Sadness to emerge.
August 30, 2004 | Full Review… -
Beautiful family saga by the great Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien.
December 12, 2002 | Full Review… -
Hou's film, which follows the Lin family's story, is an ambitious attempt to dissolve history into dramatic and poetic terms.
February 16, 2021 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for A City of Sadness
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Mar 19, 2016This strong and resonant historical drama moves with a deliberate pace and takes a good time to shape what it wants to say and find a focus, but the waiting is more than worth it and the result full of significance, even if it may be hard for the viewers to follow its intricate narrative.Carlos M Super Reviewer
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Dec 10, 2007This is the film that put Taiwan on the map of films. It's one of the best films ever made.Jojo S Super Reviewer
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