Three Times 2005 123movies

Watch: 最好的時光 2005 123movies, Full Movie Online – (1) “A Time for Love”: In 1966, in Kaohsiung, Chen meets May playing pool in a bar when he is joining the army. He sends letters to her and he comes to the bar to meet her again in his leave. However, May had traveled to another place and Chen seeks her out. (2) “A Time for Freedom”: In 1911, in Dadaochend, the writer Mr. Chang works for Mr. Liang and frequently travels to a brothel, where he meets the singer. He financially helps the courtesan Ah Mei to become a concubine. When the singer asks him if he would help her to leave the brothel, there is no answer. (3) “A Time for Youth”: In 2005, in Taipei, the messy relationship of the photographer Zhen, his girlfriend Jing and a bisexual singer..
Plot: In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold between three sets of characters, under three different periods of Taiwanese history and governance.
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Ratings:

	6.9/10 Votes: 5,914
	85% | RottenTomatoes
	80/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 72 Popularity: 3.527 | TMDB

Reviews:

Three Times: A Century of Reponses to Love
THREE TIMES (Zui hao de shi guang) is so frank a film that the viewer may get lost looking for the hidden meanings in this century traversal of lovers’ interactions in China. Not one for simple linear film-making, director Hsiao-hsien Hou instead opts for mood and suggestion and leaves the paucity of dialog to make room for emotional involvement and response. Three periods – 1966 A Time for Love, 1911 A Time for Freedom, and 2005 A Time for Youth – are depicted with the same main characters, Qi Shu and Chen Chang, who prove to be exceptionally sensitive to the concept from the director: with each new tale these fine actors mold new characters and questions and yet allow us to see a line of similarity in the couples as the director has suggested.

The film wisely opens with the most successful of the three ‘Times’ – 1966 A Time for Love – – tracing the emergence of timid passion between a lad headed for the military and a young girl who works in a pool hall. They communicate by letters after their first brief introductory encounter and circumstances interfere with the progress of their relationship in 1966 Taiwan. The middle section 1911 A Time for Freedom is gorgeous visually and conceptually the director has elected to use the cinematic form of the period (silent movie) to tell his story about the freeing of a young girl from the grip of a brothel madam and surveys the political tensions between Japan and China as the quietly lighted story of love and yearning unfolds. The film ends with 2005 A Time for Youth and here our lovers are caught up in the pollution of smog, cellphones, emails, nightclubs, and infidelities for same sex affairs that speak loudly about the tenor of the times.

Hsiao-hsien Hou’s films are an acquired taste and many will find the choppy editing, the fragmentary scenes that are not always well focused for the story line, and the over-long length (130 minutes) too much to endure. But the ideas are fresh and the characters and vignettes are memorable, and most of the major critics in the media have lavished praise on this film. It is an interesting work but for this viewer there are enough flaws to keep it grounded. Grady Harp

A Tryptich of a master
ou Hsiao-Hsien’s mystical concoction of three love stories told in different time periods but starring the same lead actors (Shu Qi and Chang Chen), finds the Taiwanese director revisiting and expanding upon his favorite milieus and themes. Perhaps it is a bit slow at the beginning, but once you get into it, it is truly a wonderful film. My first thought of “Three Times”, was that it was an experiment of beautiful cinema, driven by a masterful director, Hou Hsiao-Hsien. “Three Times” is almost close to masterpiece level.

In “Three Times”, only the second of Mr. Hou’s films to secure distribution in this country, Shu Qi plays three women living in three historical periods, separate moments that define both their relationships to the larger world and to their lovers, played in each story by the equally striking actor Chang Chen. Although the stories work on their own, they also compliment one another, so much so that the last story, “A Time for Youth,” seems less like an ending than a beginning.

Perhaps the most beautiful one of them all, is the first one, “A Time for Love”. Its physical attraction and beautiful acting drives viewers to see more. “Three Times” is a rapturously beautiful piece of modern cinema. To stumble on this work of art should be a must see for everyone.

Other Information:

Original Language zh
Runtime 2 hr 19 min (139 min), 2 hr (120 min) (USA), 2 hr 12 min (132 min) (France), 2 hr 15 min (135 min) (UK), 2 hr 19 min (139 min) (Toronto International) (Canada)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Writer T’ien-wen Chu, Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Actors Shu Qi, Chang Chen, Fang Mei
Country France, Taiwan
Awards 8 wins & 19 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 3,390 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 500T 5218, Vision2 250D 5205)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (master format), Spherical (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm