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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.Full Review

San Francisco Chronicle

This is a great companion piece to Hou's masterly "Flowers of Shanghai" and fresh evidence of his status as Taiwan's greatest filmmaker.Full Review

David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor

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. Full Review

G. Allen Johnson
San Francisco Chronicle

The film is dark, both literally and figuratively. Only at the very end do we get a glimpse of the sun.Full Review

V.A. Musetto
New York Post

Jean-Luc Godard famously declared that all it takes to make a movie is a girl and a gun. Both turn up in Millennium Mambo, a ravishing bauble about la dolce vita in Taiwan, but frankly, the gun's an afterthought. This is a movie about the girl.Full Review

John Powers
L.A. Weekly
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