Millennium Mambo

Name: Millennium Mambo
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: December 31, 2003
Duration: 119 min
Rating: 72

2003

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Palm Pictures | Release Date: December 31, 2003 | R

Summary: Set in Taipei, this is the story of a young woman trapped in several bad relationships.

Director: Hsiao-hsien Hou

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 119 min

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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. Read full review

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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. Read full review

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Phil Hall

This extraordinary work of cinematic art is among the most sublime, compelling and beautifully crafted films to grace the big screen. Read full review

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. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

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

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. Read full review

Derek Elley

A slow, empty, over-mannered snoozer that shows Taiwanese helmer Hou Hsiao-hsien asleep at the wheel. Read full review

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JoshC

Nov 20, 2006

One of the worst films of the decade. It makes "Jackass" look like a work of art.

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JonR.

Apr 9, 2008

I'll have to see it again, but my first two looks at Hou Hsiao-hsien's latest feature, initially announced as the first in a new series, have led me to conclude that it's one of the emptiest good-looking films by a major director that I can recall--even though it's also I'll have to see it again, but my first two looks at Hou Hsiao-hsien's latest feature, initially announced as the first in a new series, have led me to conclude that it's one of the emptiest good-looking films by a major director that I can recall--even though it's also the first of his films to get a U.S. release (unless one counts the 1987 Daughter of the Nile, which was barely noticed). The characters are boring--terminally familiar zeros--and the ability of this Taiwanese master to be a provocative and prescient historian of the present (Goodbye South, Goodbye and portions of Good Men, Good Women) appears to have deserted him. Visually, he works much closer to his actors than usual and moves his characters in and out of focus, defining a much more claustrophobic world than he has in the past. But the story--a young bar hostess (Hong Kong star Shu Qi) shuttles between her jealous boyfriend/flatmate and a gangster while taking ecstasy and throwing tantrums--seems standard issue, apart from the somewhat unorthodox voice-over narration, at least until an unexpectedly lyrical finale… Expand

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