
When a young street vendor with a grim home life meets a woman on her way to Paris, they forge an instant connection. He changes all the clocks in Taipei to French time; as he watches François Truffaut's "Les 400 Coups," she has a strange encounter with its now-aging star, Jean-Pierre Leaud.... (Full plot summary below)
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When a young street vendor with a grim home life meets a woman on her way to Paris, they forge an instant connection. He changes all the clocks in Taipei to French time; as he watches François Truffaut's "Les 400 Coups," she has a strange encounter with its now-aging star, Jean-Pierre Leaud.
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| Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyWhile its careful pace and seemingly opaque story may not satisfy every moviegoer's appetite, the film's final scene is soaringly, transparently moving. |
| Movie EyeFrank OchiengInherently caustic and oddly whimsical, the film chimes in on the grieving process and strangely draws the audience into the unexplainable pain and eccentricities that are attached to the concept of loss. |
| San Francisco ChronicleSteven WinnThe weight of the film's opaque, numbingly studied details ... is oppressive. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt haunts you, you can't forget it, you admire its conception and are able to resolve some of the confusions you had while watching it. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanFilled with purposeful, if absurd, activity rendered gravely hilarious through Tsai's deadpan, distanced representation of extreme behavior. |
| Reeling ReviewsRobin Clifford...the gentle melding of drama and comedy makes "What Time Is It There?" something the true film buff will enjoy. |
| CitysearchBilge EbiriBoth exuberantly romantic and serenely melancholy, What Time Is It There? may prove to be [Tsai's] masterpiece. |
| New York Magazine/VulturePeter RainerAn art piece in which everything seems to be a metaphor for something else, and as pleasing as it is to watch, it's too pretentious by half. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris Hewitt (St. Paul)The careful compositions in the Taiwanese What Time Is It There? give us plenty of time to search for meaning and to wonder what the movie is trying to say. |
| Sight and SoundTony RaynsTsai may be ploughing the same furrow once too often. |