THREE TIMES
synopsis
Set in 1911, 1996 and 2005, and featuring the same two actors in the leading roles, three stories of desire, ambition, deceit and communication: in 1966 – "A Time for Love" – a soldier searches for a young woman he met one afternoon playing pool; "A Time for Freedom", set in a bordello in 1911, revolves around a singer's longing to escape her surroundings; in 2005 in Taipei, "A Time for Youth" dramatizes a triangle in which a singer has an affair with a photographer while her partner suffers.
international title: | Three Times |
original title: | Three Times |
country: | France, Taiwan |
year: | 2005 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Hou Hsiao Hsien |
film run: | 120' |
release date: | FR 16/11/2005, BE 15/02/2006, NL 27/04/2006, UK 04/08/2006, ES 25/08/2006 |
screenplay: | Chu T'ien-Wen, Hou Hsiao Hsien |
cast: | Shu Qi, Chang Chen, Mei Fang, Liao Su-Jen, Di Mei, Chen Shi-Zheng, Lee Pei-Hsuan |
cinematography by: | Mark Lee Ping Bing |
film editing: | Liao Ching-Song |
art director: | Huang Wen-Ying |
producer: | Chang Hua-Fu, Huang Wen-Ying, Liao Ching-Song, Gilles Ciment |
production: | Orly Films, Paradis Films, 3H Films, Sinomovie |
distributor: | Océan Films, Golem Distribución, Curzon Artificial Eye, Filmmuseum Distributie, Lumière, Benelux Films Distributors Belgium (BFD) |