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What time is it there?

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Et là-bas quelle heure est-il?

What time is it there?

(Ni nei pien chi tien)

by Tsai Ming-Liang

Taiwan-France

 

Et là-bas quelle heure est-il?

Director: Tsai Ming-liang

Screenplay: Tsai Ming-liang, Yang Pi-Ying

Cinematographer: Bruno Delhomme

Editing: Chen Sheng-chang

Sound: Tu Du-chih, Tsang Hsiang-chu

Art Director: Yip Kam-sheng

Casting: Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi, Lu Yi-ching, Jean-Pierre Léaud

Production: Arena Films

Distribution:
Diaphana
155 rue du faubourg Saint-Antoine
75011 Paris
France
Tel: 0033 1 53 46 66 66
Mail: [email protected]

Year: 2001

35 mm, Color, 116 min, OV Mandarin, French and English with French subtitles

Without much conviction, Hsiao Kang sells watches in the streets of Taipei. His father passed away a few days before he meets Shianh- Chyi who is about to leave for Paris and wants a double face watch. The only available one, happens to be his own and she is keen to buy it. 
Hsiao Kang lives with his mother who has shut herself away in her flat, waiting for her husband’s reincarnation. To free himself from this oppressive atmosphere, he starts living at Shiang-Chyi’s time, watching Truffaut's 400 Blows. His even more crazy and poetical idea is to set all the clocks and watches from Taipei to Paris time. In Paris, Shiang-Chy is experiencing the same loneliness than Hsiao Kang or his mother in Taipei. She is away from Hsiao Kang, yet she feels close to him when she meets Jean-Pierre Léaud, the actor of 400 Blows, in a cemetery.

 

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