What Time Is It There
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What Time Is It There? is a 2001 film by Tsai Ming-liang. It stars Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi, and Lu 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 of Taipei, 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 in François Truffaut's The 400 Blows and other Antoine Doinel series, has a cameo appearance in this film. Like Truffaut's films, "What Time Is It There?" is fundamentally a story about young people seeking to make an identity for themselves.
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 Cemetery
