Duncan Shepherd takes this week's SD Reader Movie Section to review Hou Hsiao Hsien's Cafe Lumiere via DVD. I've been really anti watching stuff on TV lately, but this was the only way to watch it in San Diego. I liked Cafe Lumiere a lot, more so than HHH's other contemporary projects of late. Compared to Three Times and Millennium Mambo, nothing really happens in this film (although nothing really ever happens in a HHH film). Yet for two hours, watching Hitoto Yo walk around is pure bliss. It's not really the Ozu dream project that people anticipated, but instead a really solid HHH film done as an homage to him.
Moving trains, Asano Tadanobu, and the perfect ending shot make this a 4/4.
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