The warm welcome this movie has received among the art-house crowd is extremely rare, almost unparalleled, and definitely unjustified. At no point did Hsiao-hsien Hou delivered the promised goods - visually, don't expect anything brilliant; the plot somehow moves along in unbelievably slow pace (I mean, come on
we don't need 6 different shots, 15 seconds each, to see a man walk from point A to point B! WE FREAKIN' GET IT! Jesus
). The fact that there is a silent segment would have impressed me, had I lived in the fifties, when it might have been considered 'retro' or original, or if there was but the slightest plot justification for it. One might expect more from a man Jim Jarmusch introduces as a 'treasure'. Most of the crowd at the screening I attended (IFC@NYC) left the theater half way through the movie and to think this movie is promoted as Hsiao-hsien Hou's most ACCESSIBLE work
LOL. it's about as accessible as quantum mechanics. I would give this movie the lowest rate possible, if it were not for the truly gorgeous female lead (No nudity though). 2 it is.
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