The New York Times by A.O. Scott
Despite its artistry, it seems to last nearly a millennium.
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Taiwan, France · 2001
Rated R · 1h 59m
Director Hou Hsiao-hsien
Starring Shu Qi, Jack Kao, Duan Chun-hao, Doze Niu Cheng-Tse
Genre Drama
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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.
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
Despite its artistry, it seems to last nearly a millennium.
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.
A slow, empty, over-mannered snoozer that shows Taiwanese helmer Hou Hsiao-hsien asleep at the wheel.
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?
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.
Not much happens on the surface of Hou Hsiao Hsien's latest film...Nevertheless, it can break your heart.
This extraordinary work of cinematic art is among the most sublime, compelling and beautifully crafted films to grace the big screen.
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.
The film is dark, both literally and figuratively. Only at the very end do we get a glimpse of the sun.
If Millennium Mambo is the only chance to see Hou Hsaio-hsien's work at a movie theater, you'd better take it.
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