The most romantic film of the year, a triptych about three couples (all played by the same actors) in different time periods of Taiwan. This very minimalist film, where the camera barely moves and rarely any dialogue spoken, evokes the ideas of love as part of its time period. That love and fate coexist with time and space, and that one cannot happen without the other. Hou Hsia-hsien is all about mood and his playground is human emotions affected by love and its imprisonments.