What Time is it There? (Movieland)
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What Time is it There?
Ni na bian ji dian
Taïwan 2001 | Tsai Ming-liang | vostDE EN | 116’ | 35mm | Cast : Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi, Lu Yi-ching ► Compétition, Festival de Cannes 2001
A Taiwanese watch salesman who has just watched François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows. meets a young woman soon leaving for Paris. He becomes infatuated with her and starts to change all the clocks in Taipei to Paris time…
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« Tsai has managed to create an underplayed melodrama about family dynamics and dysfunction that harks back to the spare, unchecked heartache of Yasujiro Ozu. » (The New York Times)
« An absurdist comedy about alienation, separation and loss. » (The Hollywood Reporter)