captures this through a triptych of love stories set across a century of Taiwanese history, all starring the same two leads, Chang Chen , as they orbit each other in different lifetimes. 1966: A Time for Love
The first segment, A Time for Love, is often cited as the most beautiful. Set in 1966, it follows a young man searching for a pool hall hostess he met before his military service. It is bathed in nostalgia and the sounds of 1960s pop hits like "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." This chapter captures the innocence of longing. The missed connections and the eventual reunion in the rain represent a pure, kinetic form of romance that feels both fleeting and eternal. three times hou hsiao hsien
Searching for Three Times —or writing about it—is not just an act of film criticism. It is an act of mourning. Because Hou Hsiao-hsien, now in his late 70s, has not made a film since The Assassin (2015). There are rumors of dementia, of retirement, of a lost script called The Daughter of the Nile . captures this through a triptych of love stories
Hou Hsiao-hsien Three Times (2005) is a triptych of longing, following the same two leads—Shu Qi and Chang Chen—through three distinct eras of Taiwanese history. The Three Eras of Love It is bathed in nostalgia and the sounds