In 1966, 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. In 1911, 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. In 2005, in Taipei, the messy relationship of the photographer Zhen, his girlfriend Jing and a bisexual singer.
Three love stories set in different time periods, same two actors. Originally the three segments would have different directors, but after some financing problems director Hou Hsiao-Hsien took over the production, which I can't complain about because Three Times is a gorgeous film with some serious variety in settings and characters. Some may find the middle to be a bit slow paced with the dialogue being written instead of spoken, but it's all good if you ask me and I got to hand it to the director for being able to show such range in the story.
Genre: Drama/Romance
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