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Millennium Mambo, 2001

Starring: Jack Kao, Qi Shu

Directed by: Hou Hsaio-Hsien

Written by: Tien-Wen Chu

Language: Mandarin

Country: Taiwan, France

Runtime: 119 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:6.9

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The mood of Millennium Mambo is gloomy and contemplative. The plot centers around a destructive relationship, infidelity, and couples relations. It is a drama, foreign, and romance movie. In approach, Millennium Mambo is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. It takes place, at least partly, in a bar. Millennium Mambo is set in Taiwan. It happens in contemporary times.

Summary of Millennium Mambo

Winner of the Grand Prix Technique at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, Hou Hsiao Hsien's MILLENNIUM MAMBO is a strikingly beautiful film set in Taipei's hot nightclub scene. The remarkable Shu Qi stars as Vicky, a lost soul who hangs out partying with her friends, smoking nonstop, and dancing and flirting. She lives with Hao-Hao (Tuan Chun-hao), but he doesn't seem to excite her anymore, so she starts seeing an older gangster, Jack (Jack Kao), although the depth of the relationship is left purposely ambiguous. Although Vicky wants to be a free spirit, she is battling demons that cast dark shadows over her somewhat meaningless existence.

One of the world's greatest filmmakers, Hou Hsiao Hsien (FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI, THE PUPPETMASTER) has made a daring film that, despite lacking a central plot or mainstream linear narrative, is absolutely mesmerizing; Mark Lee Ping-Bing's cinematography is stunning, using a neon palette to create a mysterious aura over the entire movie. The thumping techno soundtrack adds to the overall feeling of ennui. But this is Shu Qi's film all the way; it's impossible for viewers to take their eyes off her as she wanders in slow motion across a walkway or pushes her face gently into the snow. Hsiao Hsien envisions MILLENNIUM MAMBO as the first part of a trilogy examining modern Chinese culture.

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Language:	Mandarin
Country:	Taiwan, France
Release date:	8 October 2001
Runtime:	119 min

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Jack Kao

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Qi Shu

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TV Guide

Not much happens on the surface of Hou Hsiao Hsien's latest film...Nevertheless, it can break your heart. Full Review

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by: Ken Fox

The New York Times

Despite its artistry, it seems to last nearly a millennium. Full Review

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by: A.O. Scott

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we found ourselves constantly checking to see how far to go before it was over. painfully, agonizingly slow with no plot development to speak of. depressing, which in itself is OK for a movie, but here we felt trapped in the rut of the main... Read and rate it

09.February.2010
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by: Bart Teeuwisse
Bart Teeuwisse rated this movie0/10

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