23° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

Three Times

Three Times

Country: Taiwan
Year: 2005
Duration: 135\'


Three stories taking place at three different moments, dedicated to the time of love, of freedom and of youth, respectively. 1966: a young man meets a waitress in a billiard room shortly before he leaves to do his military service. But when he returns to see her again he learns the girl has moved. 1911: a rich man wants to redeem a courtesan’s contract and steps in to hasten up the process after his son gets the girl pregnant. 2005: a singer who is going blind and a photographer who lives with his girlfriend fall in love in chaotic Taipei.  

“Our lives are full of fragments of fairly unimportant memories, which we don’t know how to name or classify. But they remain in our minds, they are impossible to cancel. I’m almost 60 years old now and I have had those memories for so long that they are a part of me. I think they are the best moments of my life: not because I can’t forget them or because they are gone for good, but because they only exist in my memory. Maybe the only way to come to terms with them was to film them.” (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

Biography

film director

Hou Hsiao Hsien

Hou Hsiao-hsien (China 1947) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1972 and became one of the leaders of Taiwan's new cinema with his films The Boys from Fengkuei (1983) and A Summer at Grandpa's (1984). City of Sadness won the Leone d'Oro at Venice in 1989. He then made a trilogy about the history of Taiwan: The Puppetmaster (1993), which won the Jury's Prize at Cannes; Good Men, Good Women (1995) and Flowers of Shanghai (1999). In 2001 his film Millennium Mambo also received the Jury's Prize at Cannes.

FILMOGRAFIA

Jiushi liuliu de ta (Cute Girl, 1980), Feng er ti ta cai (Blind of Love, 1981), Zai na hepan qingcao qing (The Green, Green Grass of Home, 1983), Fenggui lai de ren (I ragazzi di Feng Kuei, 1983), Erzi de Dawan'ou (The Sandwich Man, 1983), Dongdong de jiaqi (In vacanza dal nonno, 1984), Tong nian wang shi (Tempo di vivere, tempo di morire 1985), Lianlian Fengchen (Dust in the Wind, 1986), Nilouhe Nuer (La figlia del Nilo, 1987), Beqing chengshi (Città dolente, 1989), Hsimeng Rensheng (Il maestro burattinaio, 1993), Hao nan, hao nü (Good Men, Good Women, 1995), Nanguo zaijan, nanguo (Goodbye South, Goodbye, 1996), Hai shang hua (Flowers of Shanghai, 1998), Qianxi Mambo (Millennium Mambo, 2001), Kôhî jikô (Cafè Lumière, 2003), Zui hao de shi guang (Three Times, 2005).

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