Three Times
- Shu Qi: May / Mei Ah / Jing
- Chang Chen: Chen / Mr. Chang / Zhen
- Fang Mei: Old Woman
- Su -jen Liao: Madam / Jing's mother
- Mei Di: May's mother / madam
- Shi- Zheng Chen: Haruko / Ah Mei
- Lee Pei- Hsuan: Hostess / Micky
- Yue -Lin Ko: Special Appearance
Three Times (translated: "Three times / three times"; Chinese最好 的 时光, Pinyin Zui hao de shi guang ) is a 2005 Franco- Taiwanese incurred episode film by the renowned director Hou Hsiao -Hsien. Hou also wrote the screenplay. The film is currently available only as an import.
Action
The love couple in each 40 -minute episodes are shown by Shu Qi and Chang Chen. The film tells three romances from 1966, from 1911 and from 2005, which invite to seek similarities and differences. The design of the slowly developing drama engages Hous on his own work biography and film- historical styles, for example, at times reminiscent of Wong Kar - Wai or the great Yasujirō Ozu. Hou begins in a rural area, leads us into interior spaces and goes last in the width of a metropolis.
1966 Kaohsiung: Time of Love
In particular, the first set is with extreme reduction of artistic means and above all silence almost minimalist, and he spreads the motives for the other movie.
The young Chen feels drawn to an operator of a billiard hall named Haruko, though he must travel by bicycle long distances to her in the rural environment. But his first love letter with the text of a pop song is not the addressee of, but is intercepted by the new employees May. In addition, he has just committed in the military for Taipei. You play Free game and Snooker games. About the green cloth and the constant rebuilding of the balls he falls in love with this " timeless " atmosphere soon in May ( was proleptically shown), but gives up the place and moves in with another equally dark playing hall. He has three times her join him on the ferry, to Taichung, Chiayi and last Huwei, and ask by house numbers. Until they become a couple in the rain in front of the display panel of the station, and he takes her hand.
1911 Da- Dao - Chen: time freedom
The middle part is held as modern color silent film, including intertitles and piano accompaniment, and breaks with today's viewing habits across the board.
In a posh Flower House in Da Dao Chen could Ah Mei, courtesan and singer, develop a relationship with the politically engaged Mr. Chang, would this not so satisfied with the ideas of the new age and whose poetry ( with " Mr. Liang " is perhaps Liang Qichao meant ). In addition, be written with the Wuchang Uprising on October 10, world history. She needs money to a third party, a pregnant girlfriend to ransom from the establishment, and the rich Chang participates with 100 of 300 silver dollars. Amid the usual business operations in the lighted only by oil lamps house a contract is placed. Ah Mei Even myself would like to be freed without them would ever admit it. Three generations of courtesans are to be seen, three times he visited them. Chang recognizes that the era of Flower Houses is irretrievably coming to an end, even by his own work as a journalist. When Ah Mei three months later receives his letter from Tokyo, she sheds a tear, left all alone.
2005 Taipei: Time of Youth
This segment with three bike rides of the couple through the megacity is literally ( neon ) most colorful part of the triptych. Communication and nightclub determine everyday life and feelings of these twenty-somethings. The episode appears to be structured chronologically.
Jing is a rock singer who lives with a woman. She writes her own texts, leads a blog, and carries a ¥ tattoo on the neck. As an early birth, she is epileptic, has brittle bones, a hole in the heart and is blind in one eye. At the beginning she is in love with the photographer Zhen, in turn, his friend can not tell the truth. The episode culminates in a tragic missed call at 12:45 clock, a text program with which her lover announcing her suicide, and the fact that these as her friend commits suicide Olika by lunges at 3:33 clock from the balcony (only on the soundtrack ). Where the final motorcycle ride would lead the imagination of the viewer to decide.
Reviews
- " While the 1966 -off episode dramatically based on the correspondence of the protagonists, founded the [ ... ] middle chapter of the film on a separation of the image space and intertitles. The last [ ... ] part consists of a graffiti, neon signs, tattoos, screens and photographs saturated, pure visual substance, prior to their hypnotic maelstrom has to surrender the importance of character. "- Patrick Straumann, NZZ
- " Hou has created a cinema that makes us think about the connections between the personal and the political, the past and the present, and thirdly, memory and film. [ ... ] It is the sorrow within the limits of human experience, but take comfort in their timelessness. "- Elbert Ventura, Indie Wire
- " The proustischste the filmmaker [ ... ] a world of flux and goodbye. (this most Proustian of filmmakers [ ... ] his world of flux and farewell. ) " - James Quandt, ArtForum
- " A [ ... ] director who is not even that interested in the figures, but rather to the free spaces between them [ ... ] if there is a major issue then is, Three Times ' by the inadequacy of written communication [ ... ] " - Ben Kenigsberg, The New York Sun
- " In comparison, most other films are only half told. [ ... ] History is never quite over but here and now, a document is written that constantly ( re - ); the present is fleeting, an image that disappears even noticed before; and the cinema [ ... ] is somewhere in between - a permanent record, a fleeing moment, an inevitable fade. "- Chris Wisniewksi, Indie Wire
- " The watch is how to hold their breath [ ... ] There is no deeper message in this film. Love never has a deeper message. "- Roger Ebert
- " An absolute mastery over space and rhythm, and a human gentleness that floods through every picture. " - Film Society of Lincoln Center
- "We see two people in different time periods to which we can build no contact, of which we know next to nothing. Your romances, if any, effect indicated and fleeting. I know this is part of the meaning of the film, but it does not work. [ ... ] A long hamlet first grade " - Molodezhnaja.ch
Sødtholt spoke of " emotional film with an intellectual heart. "
The film is on the IMDb on 30 July 2008 at 6.9 out of 10 points by a vote of 1519 spectators at Rotten Tomatoes at 86 percent with 49 evaluated reviews (71 percent of 7 Topkritikern ) at Metacritic on 31 July 2008 at 80 percent with 22 evaluated reviews.
Backgrounds, Miscellaneous
The song "Rain and Tears " by Aphrodite 's Child (1968 ) is based on Pachelbel's Canon (about 1680). "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" is heard in the version of The Platters (1958).
The Chinese title translates to " the best of moments " ( the best of moments ).
Hou Hsiao -Hsien was originally planned only for directing an episode.
The silent film form in the middle part results may also pragmatically from the intention to avoid historical dialects and language coloration, as the New York Times suggests.
Roger Ebert noted that "the film value chain in North America is committed to maintain the wall between you and Hou Hsiao -Hsien " (The movie distribution system of North America is devoted to Maintaining a wall Between You and Hou Hsiao- hsien ).
Awards and nominations
International Film Festival of Cannes 2005
- Golden Palm nomination for Hou Hsiao -Hsien. The prize was awarded to the child of Jean -Pierre and Luc Dardenne.
Golden Horse Film Festival 2005
- Golden Horse Award for Best Actress for Shu Qi
- Golden Horse Award for Best Taiwanese film of the Year category
- Golden Horse Award for Best Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year category
- Nomination in the category for Best Actor Chang Chen
- Nomination in the category Best Art Direction for Wen - Ying Huang (as Hwarng Wern Ying )
- Nomination for Best Cinematography for Pin Bing Lee
- Nomination for Best Director for Hou Hsiao -Hsien
- Nomination for Best Editing for Ching- Song Liao and Hsiao Ju -kuan (as Hsiao Ru Kuan )
- Nomination for Best Film
- Nomination for Best Make Up & Costume Design for Wen - Ying Huang (as Hwarng Wern Ying ), Su -jen Liao, Gin Oy and Kuan Yi Wang
- Nomination in the category Best Screenplay - Original for T'ien -wen Chu and Hou Hsiao -Hsien
Hong Kong Film Awards 2006
- Nomination for Best Asian Film (Taiwan) category
Yerevan International Film Festival 2006
- Grand Prix - Golden Apricot in the Best Movie category for Hou Hsiao -Hsien