What Time Is It There?
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| 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 (United States) |
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Release date
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September 29, 2001 (United States) |
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Running time
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116 minutes |
| Country | Taiwan |
| Language |
Mandarin French Taiwanese English |
What Time Is It There? (Chinese:《你那邊幾點》) is a 2001 film directed 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) 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 actor in many other classic films, has a cameo appearance in this film.
The film has an 84% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
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