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Slowly paced, understated, and exquisitely shot, these are three lovely odes to love and longing.
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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. Aug 1, 2006 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
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.
Digby Lewis
An emotional journey, a showcase for two fine actors, and a multifaceted picture of love. Jul 14, 2006 | Rating: 3.5/4
An emotional journey, a showcase for two fine actors, and a multifaceted picture of love.
Moira MacDonald
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. Jul 7, 2006 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
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.
G. Allen Johnson
Seen in isolation, the first episode has the most satisfying plot and the last the least. But the film's achievement lies mostly in the beautifully articulated similarities and differences among the three. Jun 23, 2006 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Seen in isolation, the first episode has the most satisfying plot and the last the least. But the film's achievement lies mostly in the beautifully articulated similarities and differences among the three.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Three 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. Jun 23, 2006 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Three 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.
Roger Ebert
Great cinema, pop romance that carries a special charge. Jun 22, 2006 | Rating: 4/4
Great cinema, pop romance that carries a special charge.
Michael Wilmington
The first of the three stories is the best., with good visual style. Dec 4, 2016 | Full Review…
The first of the three stories is the best., with good visual style.
Michael E. Grost
Lambent Aug 30, 2009 | Full Review…
Lambent
Fernando F. Croce
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. Mar 1, 2007 | Full Review…
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.
David Noh
[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. Dec 3, 2006 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review…
[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.
Jeffrey Chen
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. Oct 28, 2006 | Rating: 10/10
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.
Beth Accomando
An emotionally understated giant of a love story. Sep 30, 2006 | Rating: A | Full Review…
An emotionally understated giant of a love story.
Dennis Schwartz
It is always interesting to see Hou put together in the same film three stories that feel like a culmination of the main themes found in his work along so many years, even though the third leaves a lot to be desired and I find too distracting the fact that the second one is silent.
Super Reviewer
Love across the ages...been done to death right? Perhaps, but it often isn't done right to death. We have had epics from mainland China and the great action genre of Hong Kong so it is good to see a Taiwanese film adding to Chineses collection. Quite touching.
[font=Century Gothic]"Three Times" contains three stylish vignettes set in Taiwan in 1966(Time for Love), 1911(Time for Freedom) and 2005(Time for Youth), each starring Qi Shu and Chen Chang playing characters in differing states of infatuation. Each story was made in an attempt to emulate each era's movies, not so much the reality of that time.(Any time period never looks at itself completely honestly, censoring out any forbidden subjects, thus giving truth to the lie that nobody had hot sex before 1969.) Although 1966 owes a lot to Wong Kar Wai, 1911 is done as a silent film complete with intertitles and musical accompaniment, albeit in color. With the earlier times, there is a sense of so close and so far for the couple in question but in 2005 with total freedom, the couple is together but not happy, suggesting that with increased liberty, we are not necessarily any happier than in stricter times. But you know what? I'll take my chances with the present day... [/font]
This film is about emotion, not plot. Poetic and beautiful to watch.
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