100
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
This is a great companion piece to Hou's masterly "Flowers of Shanghai" and fresh evidence of his status as Taiwan's greatest filmmaker.
Millennium Mambo (千禧曼波)
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- Taiwan,
- France
- 2001
- · 119m
Director
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Cast
Shu Qi,
Jack Kao,
Duan Chun-hao,
Doze Niu Cheng-Tse,
Jun Takeuchi,
Yi-Hsuan Chen
Genre
Drama
Vicky describes her youth and story of her changing life at the beginning of the new millennium. She is torn between two men, Hao-Hao and Jack, and her journeys display the parallel journey of the psyche and how one girl deals with her fleeting youth.
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What are critics saying?
100
Film Threat by Phil Hall
This extraordinary work of cinematic art is among the most sublime, compelling and beautifully crafted films to grace the big screen.
100
San Francisco Chronicle by G. Allen Johnson
Cause for celebration. It's not only a cracking good film, but it is the first by Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien to gain a national (though limited) release.
88
New York Post by V.A. Musetto
The film is dark, both literally and figuratively. Only at the very end do we get a glimpse of the sun.
80
L.A. Weekly by John Powers
Jean-Luc Godard famously declared that all it takes to make a movie is a girl and a gun. Both turn up in Millennium Mambo, a ravishing bauble about la dolce vita in Taiwan, but frankly, the gun's an afterthought. This is a movie about the girl.
80
The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias
Millennium Mambo is a resolutely minor work, so enveloped in ennui that it never gets past the surface of things. But those surfaces are remarkable.
75
Boston Globe by Wesley Morris
If Millennium Mambo is the only chance to see Hou Hsaio-hsien's work at a movie theater, you'd better take it.
70
TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox
Not much happens on the surface of Hou Hsiao Hsien's latest film...Nevertheless, it can break your heart.
70
Los Angeles Times by Manohla Dargis
There's wonderful promise in Hou's attempt to make a movie about the kind of woman who's usually part of the scenery.
60
The New York Times by Elvis Mitchell
Despite its artistry, it seems to last nearly a millennium.
60
Village Voice by J. Hoberman
In a sense, Millennium Mambo is a mildly prurient portrait of Shu moving, drinking, smoking, and changing clothes -- it's analogous to one of Andy Warhol's Edie Sedgwick films, but without the existential drama. Who really cares what costume this poor girl will wear to all tomorrow's parties?
60
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
Despite its artistry, it seems to last nearly a millennium.
40
Variety by Derek Elley
A slow, empty, over-mannered snoozer that shows Taiwanese helmer Hou Hsiao-hsien asleep at the wheel.
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