What Time Is It There
7.2 /10 1 Votes
Duration | 7.2/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Romance Country Taiwan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language MandarinFrenchTaiwaneseEnglish Release date September 29, 2001 (USA) Writer Ming-liang Tsai, Pi-ying Yang Initial release September 26, 2001 (France) Sequels The Skywalk Is Gone, The Wayward Cloud Cast (Hsiao-kang), (Shiang-chyi), (Mother), Tien Miao (Father), (Woman in Paris), (Man in Subway Station)Similar movies Related Tsai Ming-liang movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A street vendor (Lee Kang-sheng) with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman (Shiang-chyi Chen) on her way to Paris.
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What Time Is It There? (Chinese:???????) is a 2001 film directed by Tsai Ming-liang. It stars Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi, and Lu Yi-Ching.
When a young street vendor with a grim home life meets a woman on her way to Paris, they forge an instant connection. He changes all the clocks in Taipei to French time
Plot
The film tells two parallel stories, one about the life of a street vendor (Lee) following the death of his father; the other about a woman he meets briefly (Chen) as she heads off on a trip of uncertain duration to Paris. Lees character, who sells watches on the streets of Taipei, sells his own watch to Chen and then finds himself overcome by a desire to set every clock he sees to Paris time.
Jean-Pierre Leaud, the lead actor in Francois Truffauts The 400 Blows, has a cameo appearance in this film.
Cast
Reception
The film has an 84% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Awards
References
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