A City of Sadness
Drama, History
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1989
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The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror," the Kuomintang government's anti-communist political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people from 1947-1987.
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Runtime:
158 min
Release date:
21 Oct 1989
Country:
HK, TW
Languages:
cn, Chinese, Japanese
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
8 wins & 6 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
The movie conveys the director's intensely personal struggle at the crossroads of large-scale history and private memory; with understatedly bitter irony, he depicts the birth of a nation at the price of a family's dissolution.
– Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
6 Oct 2014
fresh:
A City of Sadness is a great film, one that will be watched as long as there are people who care about the movies as an art.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Tribune,
20 May 2014
fresh:
Hou turns in a masterpiece of small gestures and massive resonance; once you surrender to its spell, the obscurities vanish.
– Tony Rayns,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
It is worth the long wait for the resonance of 'A City of Sadness to emerge.
– Caryn James,
New York Times,
30 Aug 2004
fresh:
Beautiful family saga by the great Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
12 Dec 2002