What Time Is It There?

What Time Is It There?

  • Director: Ming-liang Tsai
  • Writer: Ming-liang Tsai,Pi-ying Yang
  • Countries of origin: Taiwan, France
  • Language: Mandarin, French, Min Nan, English
  • Release date: September 26, 2001
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: What Time Is It Over There?
  • "7 to 400 Blows" is a feature film produced by Fen Gu Lin Film Co., Ltd. and France Arena Films, directed by Cai Mingliang, starring Kang-sheng Lee and Chen Xiangqi .
    The film tells the love story of Xiaokang, a boy from Taiwan, who sells watches for a living, and Xiangqi, a girl who went to Paris because of the time difference between the two places.
    The film on May 15, 2001 in France, the 54th Cannes International Film Festival premiere   .

    Details

    • Release date September 26, 2001
    • Filming locations Taipei Hesien, Taiwan
    • Production companies Arena Films, Homegreen Films

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $195,760

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $27,936

    Gross worldwide

    $265,477

    Movie reviews

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    • By Zoe 2022-04-23 07:04:42

      I like the movie review and keep it, thank you nancy for the movie review

      Life and death are an insurmountable boundary. The only way is to die, or to pretend that he is still alive.
        
        While her mother misses her dead father, Xiaokang misses her far away in Paris. Without hesitation, she bought the watch that Xiaokang was still carrying when she was still carrying filial piety, and then went to Paris. The edge of the two sides, the watch is like a red thread, pulling them. Xiaokang began to wander around, adjusting the clocks and clocks in the whole...

    • By Don 2022-04-23 07:04:42

      go wherever

      Cai Mingliang's father and grandfather traveled from Guangdong to Nanyang around the 1920s, and Cai's father had the opportunity to set foot on the countryside again when he was 55 years old. Director Cai said that his father gave him a concept when he was very young: where is good, don't think too much. Therefore, he has no concept of falling leaves returning to their roots. Cai Mingliang still holds a Malaysian passport, but he describes his relationship with the country as "not particularly...

    • By Justen 2022-04-23 07:04:42

      What a lonely ghost movie

      Green rice cooker.
      Is it okay to pee in a plastic bag? It doesn't matter, plastic bags are not afraid of heat.
      A big white fish like a ghost in a fish tank.
      A tribute to "400 Down" and "Hiroshima Love".
      Holding the quilt to expose the thighs.
      Blanket with tiger pattern.
      The clock was snatched away by a fat man who was exhibitionist. . . .
      The lights in the room are always dim.
      The hungry child stole a large bottle of milk and drank it quickly....

    • By Deja 2022-04-22 07:01:53

      My watch that can't correct your time

      The movie "What Time Is Your Over There", as its name suggests, is about time. In the film, time becomes a symbolic image, referring to the rhythm and pace of life, or the form and state of life.

      There are three different times in the film: time in Taiwan, time in Paris, and time in the underworld. The difference in time is equivalent to the difference in space, but it actually reflects the distance, the distance between people, and the distance between hearts. The characters in the...

    • By Vallie 2022-04-22 07:01:53

      short

      Director Tsai Ming-liang's works are praised by many people. Maybe I haven't reached my realm yet, and I'm not lonely enough. I feel that this film is very painful. Xiaokang and the woman met at the wrong time, and it is impossible to say whether each other is the right person. The film is emotionally revealing in a very real and explicit way.
      The story develops flat and slow paced! I looked online and thought I was stuck! !
      The director chose Paris as the main location because of his...

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    • By Matt 2023-08-31 08:44:49

      Symbol film. A friend commented: "It's so beautiful, it's ridiculous!" I don't care about the symbolic nature of the images, I care about the directionality of the symbols; so some places are dreamlike, and some are a little too technical. After reading it, I also have the urge to adjust all the clocks in my place to another time; what time are you over...

    • By Violette 2023-08-23 12:19:40

      what time is it there? Greetings looking at each other across the air, but not conveyed to the other side. After experiencing everything, I gained more loneliness, miss the watch, is it him? Or is it an instinctive fear of...

    • By Jaylen 2023-08-19 20:43:19

      "a cinema of slowness": 1. Tsai Ming-liang's first feature film without any camera movement, the first time he collaborated with a foreign photographer, adding mixed temperature lighting, high-contrast images and poetry to his signature style Aperture changes of , high-contrast lighting (indoor urination scene) creates a kind of concentrated stillness Not much, but a feeling that it didn't happen. In long takes, the rhythm is achieved "within each shot", conveyed by "the life of the object...

    • By Americo 2023-07-25 08:22:36

      Cai Mingliang's magic power is to make people indulge in a...

    • By Darius 2023-07-19 03:56:31

      #中明明明# The image of the slow-moving watch in the film is amazing, it transcends the hole in the wall in the director's previous work. The two thus create a curious but insubstantial connection, giving a parallel narrative an unconventional meaning. Cai is very good at capturing the despairing loneliness of people's hearts. The male protagonist's completely whimsical and self-conscious unrequited love actually makes people so empathetic. At the end, when Leod appeared, I was really shocked. This...

    Movie plot

    Xiaokang makes a living by selling watches on a flyover in Taipei. Since his father's death, Xiaokang has become very afraid of the dark. He locked the door, turned on the light to sleep, and did not dare to come out to urinate in the middle of the night. He always felt that his father's ghost was walking around the house. During the day, he was selling watches on the flyover outside Taipei Main Station, and Xiang Qi, who was going...
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    Evaluation action

    "7 to 400 Blows" cleverly connects Taipei and Paris with the clock and love. The dialogue in the film is humorous, and the stories are connected in one go   . Not only does it record Taiwan's funeral culture, but also through the living people's original fear of ghosts, to wanting to get close to their deceased relatives, with humorous methods, the topic of horrific death has an absurd sense of comedy (Le Figaro). ", Sina Entertainment...
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    Movie quotes

    • [first lines]

      Father: Hsiao Kang? Hsiao Kang?

    • Shiang-chyi: Come on. Sell me this one.

      Hsiao-kang: It'd be bad luck to own my watch.

      Shiang-chyi: Why?

      Hsiao-kang: Someone in my family just died. I'm in mourning. I can't sell it to you.

    • Hsiao-kang: So we have dinner at midnight now?

      Mother: What do you know? Can't we go along with your dad's time?