- Actors: Chao-jung Chen, Kang-sheng Lee, Kuei-Mei Yang, Yi-Ching Lu
- Directors: Ming-liang Tsai
- Writers: Ming-liang Tsai, Pi-ying Yang, Yi-chun Tsai
- Producers: Feng-Chyt Jiang, Hu-pin Chung, Li-Kong Hsu, Wei-hua Tzon
- Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language: Mandarin Chinese
- Subtitles: English
- Region: All Regions
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- MPAA Rating:
- Studio: Paradox
- Release Date: Oct 1 2002
- Run Time: 118 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 1572522410
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#54,390 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
- #36 in DVD > Art House & International > Asian Cinema > Taiwan
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This mesmerizing film focuses on a bizarre love triangle between two young people who meet in a vacant apartment and a gay man who hides in the same apartment spying on the couple.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
another absorbing film from Tsai Ming-Liang,
By esseyo (Jersey City, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Vive l'Amour (Widescreen) (DVD)
Just adding to other people's comments. Briefly, one "well-adjusted" man (Chen Chao-Jung) enters the life of two lonely individuals (Yang Kuei-Mei and Lee Kang-Sheng) in urban Taiwan. One of the ideas I like most is that one makes physical contact but experiences only one brief moment of emotional comfort; one experiences emotional comfort but only one brief moment of physical contact.The acting from the 3 stars is totally natural and convincing. The long periods of "silence" is beautiful and effective. Mandarin with English subtitles that you can't turn off. But this is not a problem since there is little dialogue. No Chinese
5.0 out of 5 stars
Antonioni Meets Lubitsch...,
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This review is from: Vive l'Amour (Widescreen) (DVD)
A breathtaking view of isolation and loneliness; Taipei is the setting for the story of three characters who use an empty apartment building for their own purposes, barely aware of the other inhabitants. Slowly, quietly they affect the others' lives. Elliptical, dreamy, with spare dialogue and a rigorous, deliberate pace, Tsai-Ming Liang captures a palpable sense of unrest and disquiet in a lanscape of skyscrapers and industrial ooze. The setting's Taipei, but the characters could be in any big city; alienated, desperate for connection and unable or unsure of how to reach the other souls. There are moments of hilarity and disconcerting emotion, but ultimately the film creates a sense of quiet horror; in Liang's mirror, we are just ghosts taking up space in the concrete.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Tragic-Comedy at its Best,
By Chee Young CHANG (Singapore) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Vive l'Amour (Widescreen) (DVD)
Ming-Liang Tsai has never failed to deliver the goods when it comes to describing our postmodern existence in an Asian city. Vive L'amour tells a story of three persons in an empty studio apartment in Taipei. It is a manage-a-trois that never happened. This movie is not for the faint-hearted. Its poetry lies in its sparseness. Imagine, there's only about 30 mins of dialogue in the 150-min movie! Watch the pivotal 10-min scene at the end of the movie where the female protagonist walks round a park, sits down and cry, all in one take. Vive L'amour shows us all the things a good movie should be, what Hollywood films have consistently failed to do.
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