
A Time to Live, a Time to Die
1986, Drama/Biography, 2h 18m
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Critic Reviews for A Time to Live, a Time to Die
All Critics (6) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (6)
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[A] delicate, haunted drama, from 1986, in which the director Hou Hsiao-hsien conjures his reminiscences of childhood and adolescence in a remote Taiwan village in the nineteen-forties and fifties.
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A near-masterpiece.
May 4, 2005 | Rating: A- | Full Review… -
Interesting look at a family's daily life in the Taiwan of 50 years ago.
December 29, 2015 | Full Review… -
Wonderfully crafted film that depicts childhood in a very simple but relevant manner.
March 2, 2013 | Rating: B+ | Full Review… -
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June 29, 2005 | Rating: 4/5 -
Moving and memorable, and more accessible than some of the director's other work
August 12, 2004 | Rating: 4/5
Audience Reviews for A Time to Live, a Time to Die
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Mar 31, 2013poetically filmed and touching coming of age story based on hou's family's experience coming from the mainland to taiwan during the war. at first seemingly temporary residents, they soon find themselves trapped by the communist takeover, the children as they grow enduring the deaths of their father, then their mother and eventually their old grandmother, who was always getting lost trying to find her way back to her home village. very moving in the end, marred for me only by the too sentimental music at some pointsStella D Super Reviewer
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