Lustrous lensing by Mark Lee and typically spirited playing by actress Shu Qi are the only survivors from "Millennium Mambo," a slow, empty, over-mannered snoozer that shows Taiwanese helmer Hou ...

Millennium Mambo is the first movie in director Hou Hsiao-hsien’s 25-year career to be distributed theatrically in the U.S., ... like the faces on the movie posters hanging above her, ...

Millennium Mambo Opens Dec. 23 at Metrograph, Manhattan; metrograph.com . A version of this article appears in print on , Section C , Page 10 of the New York edition with the headline: A Lush ...

In “Millennium Mambo,” Hou’s intimately constructed 2001 drama, she plays a dissatisfied nightclub hostess in a post-Y2K Taipei, tumbling through a series of relationships we now, more than ...

“Millennium Mambo” is an iridescent underworld romance set in a throbbing modern Taipei zone of bars, strip joints and fancy apartments. A prizewinner at both the Cannes and Chicago Film ...

In “Millennium Mambo,” men and women drift from moment to moment unmoored from the here and the now. Unlike the characters in director Hou’s previous films -- including his masterpieces ...

Over the last months of 1999, it frequently seemed like every writer and performance artist in the country had suddenly become obsessed with the date. With the millennium capturing the public consc… ...