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‘An undisputed masterpiece and Best-of-the-Decade staple, Three Times is Hou's breathtaking, tripartite tale of love (and love lost) from three periods in Taiwanese history: 1966, 1911, and 2005. Starring Shu Qi and Chang Chen as decade-hopping courters, its splendour comes from the way Hou contemplates time within each chapter. “A Time for Love” elliptically jumps from month to month at a 1960s pool hall, where a soldier on leave tries to (re)connect with an attractive bargirl. “A Time for Freedom” adopts the period-proper intertitles of the silent era to portray a 1910s brothel during the Chinese revolution. And “A Time for Youth” returns to the modern-day Taipei of Millennium Mambo to consider a nihilistic singer who sells herself as an object without past or future. "This is why cinema exists" (A. O. Scott, New York Times).’ The Cinémathèque

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