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This film is nothing less than an experience in re-learning what it means to see. When constantly surrounded by several avenues of instant gratification, there isn’t much that is as consummately fulfilling as taking the time to devote your attention to a film like this.

Abhirup Maitra

16Mar13

A collage of melancholic images that will continue to stick for a VERY long time.Beautiful film.

Jason _

10Mar13

hermoso film

Bitė

21Jan13

this film hurts. a lot.

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Monsieur Arkadin

4Dec12

Perhaps the best performance from a fish that you will ever see.

Abhirup Maitra

16Mar13

Don't forget the fish from Shohei Imamura's "The Pornographers". :D

novanindro

12Oct12

very contemplative.a simple movie for a simple mind

Matthew_Lucas

29Apr12

Beautifully sad, poetically composed tale of three people whose lives become irrevocably intertwined - a watch seller, his superstitious mother, and the young woman he sells a watch to one fateful day before she flies away to Paris. Traces haunting connections between all three stories, often in single long takes, Tsai Ming-Liang gracefully weaves the stories together into something disarmingly beautiful.

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Matt Turner

17Mar12

Meticulous film that offers more to work with in a single shot that a lot of films do in their duration. Sublime.

Apurimac

24Feb12

So powerful, meditative, graceful and sad. It doesn't get better than the final shot.

Amateur View

20Oct11

Telepathic desert..

Patrick L

6Aug11

I like to think of this as a celebration of silence, some scenes were just oozing with quiet beauty.

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Darinka, The Classical

FailedImitator

14Jun11

This is my first Tsai Ming-Liang film. I don't know what to make of it.

John Sandwich

11May11

Have not seen a film by Tsai that isn't great yet.

Viktor Sjoelinder

18Jul11

Suppose you haven't seen the ones he made after this then, hihi :P

Kongtai

30Apr11

Tsai story here is more emphasis on a spiritual and traditional magical power of his father who had died before

The Classical

12Apr11

This film has one of the most breathtaking finales I have ever seen. Highly, highly recommended.

Klaus Capra

25Feb11

The right glance will always be more poignant than a thousand worthless conversations. Not a word wasted.. cinema does the talking. Beautiful style that of Ming-liang.

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Lucas Granero

24Sep10

Los 400 Golpes para cuando nos sintamos solos.

HeadGEAR

9Aug10

Tsai convincingly paints a specifically urban sense of disassociation here.

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House of Leaves

3Aug10

Shiang-chyi is going on a trip. Father says so. Brilliant.

Ouibonjour

1Aug10

Amazing. The final scene is perfection.

Kelvane

9Jul10

As my love for the director grows, I find more interest in a single of his shots than in many director's entire film.

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laurabot

26Jun10

Gorgeous film. I love the big fishy! He just loved the camera. What a great animal actor!

Nosada

21Apr10

Pretty phenomenal. Tsai is a genius behind the camera.

Jerry Johnson

22Feb10

Big Ming-Liang fan, but I had trouble reconciling the austere, severe mise-en-scene with the cutesy subject matter in this particular film.

rajiv ibrahim

9Jan10

i'd say this is one of the best asian movie i've ever seen., love tsai ming-liang's style..

Robert W Peabody III

26Dec09

to move forward while the past haunts the present..... life as plot-less narrative

Scout

16Dec09

L'Avventura, but today and in colour! Heart-warming.

Law

3Dec09

What Time is it There? is a fantastic exploration of alienation and ennui in contemporary society. I paricularly enjoyed the linking of an alienated Antoine and the alienated people of today. Using the "Asian minimalism" long take style, Tsai constructs an always interesting and meaningful form to accompany the themes of the film to great success as his characters search endlessly for existential meaning.