What Time Is It There?

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What Time Is It There?

Directed by	Tsai Ming-liang
Produced by	Bruno Pesery
Written by	Tsai Ming-liang Yang Pi-ying
Starring	Lee Kang-sheng Chen Shiang-chyi Lu Yi-Ching
Distributed by	WinStar Cinema (U.S.)
Release date(s)	October 9, 2001 (U.S.)
Running time	116 min
Language	Mandarin French Taiwanese English
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What Time Is It There? is a 2001 film by Tsai Ming-liang. It stars Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi, and Lu Yi-Ching. The film tells two parallel stories, one about the life of a street vendor (Lee) in Taipei following the death of his father; the other about a woman he meets briefly (Chen) as she heads off on a trip of uncertain duration to Paris. Lee's character, who sells watches on the streets of Taipei, sells his own watch to Chen and then finds himself overcome by a desire to set every clock he sees to Paris time.

Jean-Pierre Léaud, the lead actor in François Truffaut's The 400 Blows and other Antoine Doinel series, has a cameo appearance in this film. Like Truffaut's films, "What Time Is It There?" is fundamentally a story about young people seeking to make an identity for themselves.

[edit] Cast

Kang-sheng Lee - Hsiao-kang
Shiang-chyi Chen - Shiang-chyi
Yi-Ching Lu - Mother
Tien Miao - Father
Cecilia Yip - Woman in Paris
Chao-jung Chen - Man in Subway Station
Guei Tsai - Prostitute
Arthur Nauzyciel - Man at Phone Booth
David Ganansia - Man at Restaurant
Jean-Pierre Léaud - Jean-Pierre/Man at the Cemetery

[edit] External links

Ni neibian jidian at the Internet Movie Database
What Time Is It There? at Rotten Tomatoes
Movie Review Query Engine Page - A listing of links to movie reviews regarding this film.

v • d • e Films directed by Tsai Ming-liang

Rebels of the Neon God (1992) • Vive L'Amour (1994) • The River (1997) • The Hole (1998) • What Time Is It There? (2001) • Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) • The Wayward Cloud (2005) • I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006)