Yi Yi (2000)
A'Why is the world so different from what we think it is?'
19 July 1979, Taiwan
18 November 1967, Taipei, Taiwan
30 August 1968, Evansville, Indiana, USA
1 February 1926, Zhongshan, Guangdong, China
25 February 1946, Taiwan
1959, Taiwan
1966, Taiwan
March 31, 2008
Every beat and every image and every cut and every note feels like a part of a whole. It is a total movie.
January 15, 2005
The final moments left me thunderstruck, as deeply moved as I've ever been by a film. Yi Yi accumulates moments of truth and insight until it glows with importance.
December 29, 2009
One of the best films of the decade, Yi Yi, Edward Yang's most accessible (and very last) film is a fluent, charming and precise family portrait that celebrates ordinary life with all its joys and chaos.
April 26, 2001
This intimate family portrait peels away layer after layer of unspoken truth and hidden life.
December 15, 2010
Blending the Coen Brothers' karmic rubicon with Robert Altman's ensemble heart, "Yi Yi" scratches the identifiable itch to reach out for what we've loved, set free and had come back, perhaps still not meant to be: jobs, lovers, freedoms, opportunities.
March 22, 2001
Keenly observed.
May 14, 2001
The artistry is undeniable -- tough insights blended with graceful compassion, gloomy certainties flecked with rays of hope.
August 21, 2009
A heartfelt and involving family drama to which even the most subtitle-wary moviegoer could relate.
May 08, 2001
A marvel of delicacy and humor.
March 02, 2001
A five-course meal of a movie, with drinks, for mature moviegoers for whom most films have come to resemble brainless carnival rides, not works of art.
May 21, 2001
Life-affirming in the most genuine, respectful and least mechanical sense.
