| ZUI HAO DE SHIGUANG
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| Three Times |
| Hou Hsiao-Hsien
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Three Times evokes three moments of euphoria lost forever
in the folds of time. Three different time periods in Taiwan,
with the same actors in three different roles. Year 1966:
A "billiard gal" and a young soldier meet once and
then struggle to find each other again. Finally they share
stolen moments together on a beautiful warm evening. Year
1911: During the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, a decent man
wins the admiration of a courtesan through his kindness, but
because of his modern principles he can not take her as his
concubine. He sends a letter from Shanghai that conveys his
regret and his unfulfilled love. Year 2005: Under the threat
of warfare with China, Taiwan is unsettled. A young bi-sexual
woman becomes involved in a mad three-way love affair. |
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| Screenplay Tien Wen Chu
Photography (colour) Mark Ping-Bin Lee
Editing Shing Song Liao
Cast Shu Qi, Chang Chen, Mei Fang, Liao Su-jen, Di Mei
Production Sino Movie, Paradis Films, Orly Films
Year of production 2005
Running time 131’
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| Hou Hsiao-Hsien
He was born in 1947 in Guangdong Province, China, and raised
in Taiwan, where he graduated in 1972 in direction from the
National Academy of Arts. He is a director, actor and producer.
In 1985 he directed the film A Time to Live, A Time to Die
that won the International Award of Critics at Berlin Film
Festival. His other works include: Dust in the Wind (1987),
City of Sadness (1989) winner of the Leone d’Oro at
Venice Film Festival, The Puppetmaster (1993), which shared
the Prix du Jury at the Festival de Cannes, Good Men, Good
Women (1995), Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996), Flowers of Shanghai
(1998), Millennium Mambo (2001), presented at the second edition
of Asiaticafilmmediale, Café Lumière (2004).
Hou Hsiao-Hsien has been elected best actor of the 90s by
the International Society of Cinémathèques.
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