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.
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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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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.
Hou turns in a masterpiece of small gestures and massive resonance; once you surrender to its spell, the obscurities vanish.
It is worth the long wait for the resonance of 'A City of Sadness to emerge.
Beautiful family saga by the great Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien.
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