- What Time Is It There?
Infobox_Film
name = What Time Is It There?
writer =Tsai Ming-liang Yang Pi-ying
starring =Lee Kang-sheng Chen Shiang-chyi Lu Yi-Ching
director =Tsai Ming-liang
producer = Bruno Pesery
distributor =WinStar Cinema (U.S. )
released =October 9 2001 (U.S. )
runtime = 116 min
language = Mandarin
French
Taiwanese
English
budget =
music =
awards =Chicago Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, Best Director, Best Cinematography
imdb_id = 0269746"What Time Is It There?" is a
2001 film byTsai Ming-liang . It starsLee Kang-sheng ,Chen Shiang-chyi , andLu Yi-Ching . The film tells two parallel stories, one about the life of a street vendor (Lee) in Taipei following the death of his father; the other about a woman he meets briefly (Chen) as she heads off on a trip of uncertain duration to Paris. Lee's character, who sells watches on the streets ofTaipei , sells his own watch to Chen and then finds himself overcome by a desire to set every clock he sees to Paris time.Jean-Pierre Léaud , the lead actor inFrançois Truffaut 's "The 400 Blows " and otherAntoine Doinel series, has acameo appearance in this film.Cast
*Kang-sheng Lee - Hsiao-kang
*Shiang-chyi Chen - Shiang-chyi
*Yi-Ching Lu - Mother
*Tien Miao - Father
*Cecilia Yip - Woman in Paris
*Chao-jung Chen - Man in Subway Station
*Guei Tsai - Prostitute
*Arthur Nauzyciel - Man at Phone Booth
*David Ganansia - Man at Restaurant
*Jean-Pierre Léaud - Jean-Pierre/Man at the CemeteryExternal links
*imdb title|id=0269746|title=Ni neibian jidian
*rotten-tomatoes|id=what_time_is_it_there|title=What Time Is It There?
* [http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?isindex=what+time+is+it+there Movie Review Query Engine Page] - A listing of links to movie reviews regarding this film.
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