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Millennium mambo
Uniform Title
Qianxi manbo (Motion picture)
Title
Millennium mambo / directed by Hou Hsaio-hsien.
Publication
[United States] : Metrograph Pictures, [2023]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Title from sell sheet.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2001.
Wide screen.
Special feature: video essay by Adrian Martin and Cristina Alvarez Lopez; re-release trailer.
Mandarin dialogue; English subtitles.
Summary
A stylish and seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, Hou Hsiao-hsien's Millennium Mambo is a much-misunderstood marvel. Presented in a stunning 4K restoration, it stars Shu Qi (The Transporter) as an aimless bar hostess drifting away from her blowhard boyfriend and towards Jack Kao's suave, sensitive gangster. Structured as a flashback to the then-present from the then-future of 2011, it's a transfixing trance-out of a movie, drenched in club lights, ecstatic endorphin rush exhilaration, and a nagging undercurrent of ennui.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Chinese
Added to Catalog
August 01, 2023
Cast
Shu Qi, Jack Kao, Chun-Hao Tuan, Jun Takeuchi, Ko Takeuchi.
System details note
Blu-ray, wide screen; requires Blu-ray player.
Audience
MPAA rating: R; for language, drug content and some sexuality.
Videorecording number
K26295 Metrograph Pictures
Subjects
Genre/Form
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Romance films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Romance films.
Also listed under
Metrograph Pictures, publisher.
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