Millennium Mambo 2001 123movies

Watch: 千禧曼波 2001 123movies, Full Movie Online – Taipei. A voice off-camera looks back ten years to 2000, when Vicky was in an on-again off-again relationship with Hao-Hao. She’s young, lovely, and aimless. He’s a slacker. Cigarettes and alcohol fuel her nights. We see bits of her life: when Hao-Hao steals his father’s Rolex and the police detain them; when she gets a job as a club hostess, where she meets Jack, who becomes her patron and protector; when Hao-Hao comes to the club, insisting on talking to her; when she visits Yubari, Japan, for its film festival in the dead of winter; when Jack must go to Japan to straighten out trouble caused by one of his acolytes. Does Vicky have any expectations? Does time simply pass?.
Plot: The beautiful Vicky drifts through her empty life in the neon-lit Taipei, maintaining a pointless relationship with her loser DJ boyfriend, Hao-Hao, and an unsatisfying career as a nightclub hostess. As her romance becomes increasingly strained, she decides to take up with Jack, a caring but criminally connected businessman. But this new relationship can’t change Vicky’s aimless nature, and her future remains as doubtful as ever.
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Ratings:

	7.0/10 Votes: 5,542
	81% | RottenTomatoes
	73/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 133 Popularity: 8.637 | TMDB

Reviews:

Poetic film with uninteresting characters
I saw this movie at Vancouver International Film Festival. As typical of a HHH movie showing, some audiences walked out, which means it is slow-paced. Again with his customary long shots, all the acting and actions appear quite realistic. Jack Kao is convincing and cool as always. Shu Qi brings a credible portrayal to a not-so-interesting character. And the movie has a lyrical feel (especially the opening tracking shot and the snow scenes), accompanied nicely by the atmospheric theme music.

However, the two main characters just don’t have appealing personalities. Like the characters in “South Goodbye South”, both Vicky and Hao are restless, aimless & not very bright. (Lifeless) Rebels without a cause. I am wondering whether this is how Hou and Chu (the screenwriter) perceive the twentysomethings in Taiwan. Since Vicky is narrating from 10 years into the future, I do realize she will mature. Her transformation that starts here was not shown convincingly though. I also know that this is the first of a series of films on this decade, but it doesn’t feel fully realized on its own.

I also have a slight problem with the narration preceding the real events. It makes the expected events boring, when the real events don’t bring anything extra (e.g. contradiction, irony) to the narration.

Compared to “South Goodbye South”, this one may not be as ambitious thematically. While “South Goodbye South” has a lot of boredom and dread (possibly intentionally so), I like the poetic, reflective and semi-nostalgic mood of “Mambo” much more.

The world’s greatest director is a time-junkie…
Hou’s latest film, I saw as part of Village Voice’s Best Undistributed Films of 2001 series, feels like a mixing and modulation of his last three: a young woman’s abortive but contemplative contemporary existence (GOOD MEN, GOOD WOMEN), a moment-by-moment addiction to thrill-seeking (GOODBYE SOUTH GOODBYE) and a love affair entombed in drugs (FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI) all figure into Hou’s attempt to lyricize the moment we are living in — NOW. The result is a film that seems immensely fascinated in each moment it is capturing — luminescent bodies dancing in an underground rave; a man inhaling and exhaling smoke from a makeshift bong; the absolute wonder of one’s facial imprint in an immaculately white snowbank — until those moments lead to other moments of inescapable banality or dread. Hou enhances this addiciton-to-the-moment with a voice-over that takes place in 2010, giving away plot points before they happen on-screen; since narrative convention no longer matters, the result is an even more intense experience of the moment tied in with an odd sensation of retrospection (no one messes around with the concept of history more than Hou). The give-and-take of this kind of project is that not everything will succeed on a dramatic level, but the experience of this film (and I do mean *experience*) is too exquisite to be denied. There are no less than half a dozen moments in this film, easily the most sumptuously photographed of the year, whose sheer beauty in harmonizing time and image are timeless treasures: objects and settings seem to take on a life of their own, before they are inevitably swept under the ever-moving carpet of time.

Other Information:

Original Language zh
Runtime 1 hr 59 min (119 min), 1 hr 45 min (105 min) (edited), 1 hr 41 min (101 min) (DVD) (USA)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Writer T’ien-wen Chu
Actors Shu Qi, Jack Kao, Chun-hao Tuan
Country Taiwan, France
Awards 6 wins & 9 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm