Movie Review - Three Times

Zui hao de shi guang (2005)
directed by Hsiao-hsien Hou
rating: 1 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix

Even before Sam pointed out the fatal flaw in this film's opening shot - "like pan-and-scanning Wong Kar-Wai" - the first love story wore thin, the second fell flat, and the third was just a waste of time. It's the kind of pretty vacancy that makes you rethink what you liked so much about Hou's other movies in the first place, or at least explains why IFC Films and Wellspring don't seem to be fighting off Criterion for distribution privileges.