Millennium Mambo

(2001)

★ 7 IMDb · 265 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2001

Runtime: 106 мин

Country: Taiwan, France

Director: 侯孝賢

Cast: Шу Ци, Гао Цзе, Дуань Цзюнь Хао, 鈕承澤, Jun Takeuchi, Yi-Hsuan Chen, Ko Takeuchi, Hsu Hui-Ni, 彭康育, 陳寶蓮

Plot

In 2011, Vicky looks back on her life a decade earlier, recalling her turbulent relationship with her controlling boyfriend Hao Hao and her growing connection to a compassionate gangster amid the neon haze of Taipei's nightlife.

Taipei. A voice off-camera looks back ten years to 2000, when Vicky was in an on-again off-again relationship with Hao-Hao. She's young, lovely, and aimless. He's a slacker. Cigarettes and alcohol fuel her nights. We see bits of her life: when Hao-Hao steals his father's Rolex and the police detain them; when she gets a job as a club hostess, where she meets Jack, who becomes her patron and protector; when Hao-Hao comes to the club, insisting on talking to her; when she visits Yubari, Japan, for its film festival in the dead of winter; when Jack must go to Japan to straighten out trouble caused by one of his acolytes. Does Vicky have any expectations? Does time simply pass?