MILLENNIUM MAMBO

Hsiao Hsien HOU
  • 2001
  • In Competition
  • Feature Films
Prix du Jury à un technicien 2001

The youthful Vicky is torn between two men, Hao-Hao and Jack. At night she works as a PR person at a night club to support both of them. Hao-Hao keeps vigilance over her all the time, no matter she is on or off the job. He checks her charge accounts, telephone bills, mobile phone records, and even her body odor in an attempt to trace Vicky’s activities. She cannot stand him any longer; she runs away. Hao-Hao finds her, begging her to go home. She sets herself a deadline to end the relationship – when the $500,000 in her bank account is used up.
NT$500,000 settled (burned away) a love affair.
At the same time, Jack makes diversified business investments. His open-arm policy to anyone in need of his help has courted some trouble. Vicky has already run to his place twice. Some degree of aff

Directed by : Hsiao Hsien HOU
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 115

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DESERT MOON

Shinji AOYAMA

DISTANCE

KORE-EDA Hirokazu

ELOGE DE L’AMOUR

Jean-Luc GODARD

LA CHAMBRE DES OFFICIERS

François DUPEYRON

LA PIANISTE

Michael HANEKE

LA REPETITION

Catherine CORSINI

LA STANZA DEL FIGLIO

(THE SON'S ROOM) Nanni MORETTI

MOULIN ROUGE

Baz LUHRMANN

NO MAN’S LAND

Danis TANOVIC

ROBERTO SUCCO

Cédric KAHN

SAFAR E GANDEHAR

(QANDAHAR) Mohsen MAKHMALBAF

SHREK

Vicky JENSON, Andrew ADAMSON

TAURUS

Alexander SOKOUROV

THE PLEDGE

Sean PENN

VA SAVOIR

Jacques RIVETTE

VOU PARA CASA

Manoel DE OLIVEIRA