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The extraordinary, internationally embraced final film from Edward Yang is a warm, sprawling, and dazzling epic regarded as an undisputed masterwork of the 21st century.
A film of rare emotional precision and formal grace, this deeply felt portrait of three generations of a Taipei family in quiet crisis unfolds in perfect calibration and accumulated emotional power. Middle-aged businessman NJ is facing personal and professional upheaval: his company is floundering, and an old flame has reappeared. Around him, his wife spirals into spiritual despair, his young daughter wrestles with guilt over her grandmother’s stroke, and his curious, observant son begins to glimpse the complications of adult life. Winner of the Best Director award at Cannes in 2000. [173 min; drama; Mandarin with English subtitles]
"A marvel of delicacy and humor." — Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"The film’s brilliance emanates equally from its structure...the acuteness of its gaze, and Yang’s acknowledgement of life as a series of alternately humdrum and catastrophic occurrences, like a flower that blooms in the summer and wilts in the fall; he hopes you will notice it, because seeing is what validates its unique extraordinariness." — Ed Gonzales, Slant Magazine
"Great, bittersweet family drama." — Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
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