Millennium Mambo
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Chun-hao Tuan, Jack Kao, Jun Takeuchi, Qi Shu, Yi-Hsuan Chen Director: Hsiao-hsien Hou Brand: MMV Cinematographer: Ping Bin Lee Editor: Ching-Song Liao Producer: Eric Heumann Producer: Gilles Ciment Producer: T'ien-wen Chu Writer: T'ien-wen Chu Producer: Wen-Ying Huang DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: Cantonese (Original Language) Format: Color, DVD, NTSC Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 105 minutes DVD Release Date: 2004-10-19 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Model: PALMDV3095 Studio: Palm Pictures / Umvd Product features:
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Movie Reviews of Millennium Mambo
Movie Review: Smoke Cigarettes, Say Nothing in an Artful Manner
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie got some rave reviews from film critics when it was first shown here in New York. As a result, I began watching the DVD with high expectations, and, boy, what a letdown!
I found the film hard to follow. There isn't much dialogue and it is often hard to tell what's really going on. The film is about a young woman named Vicki who smokes cigarettes, smokes cigarettes, and then smokes more cigarettes. Besides smoking cigarettes, she lives with a real loser who is unemployed, smokes dope, and abuses her. (He looks a bit like an Oriental Christopher Walken.) But, you see, every time she leaves him, he finds her and begs her to come back, and, instead of telling him to take a flying you know what, she...goes back to him! In between her live ins with the loser boyfriend, the film almost becomes interesting for a brief moment when she ends up dating a member of a Triad who perhaps (it is unclear but implied) kills someone and flees to Japan.
Because of the lack of dialogue, there is no character development and so it is difficult to care about the characters in the film. Vicki ends up seeming to be quite a pathetic creature - albeit a fairly sexy pathetic creature.
I thought there at least might be some interesting sex scenes, since Vicki is played by former soft core porn star Shu Qi, but you can forget about that.
All in all, the film is a real snore. I'm giving it two stars instead of one, however, because of the artful cinematography, and because Shu Qi looks really sexy with all those cigarettes hanging out of her pouting lips. As another reviewer noted, the film has style but almost no substance. This film artfully states nothing in particular.