Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

What Time Is It There? (2001)

What Time Is It There? poster
Original title
你那邊幾點
Directed by
Tsai Ming-liang
Genre
drama film
Country
Taiwan, France
Runtime
1h 56m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 120 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A watch seller in Taipei becomes obsessed with changing the time on his clocks after selling a watch to a woman who then travels to Paris. The film intercuts his quiet routines in Taiwan with her solitary experiences in a foreign city.

melancholicslow-burnlonelymeditativequietbittersweetatmosphericcontemplative

What happens

What Time Is It There? is a 2001 Taiwanese film directed by Tsai Ming-liang. It stars Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi, and Lu Yi-ching. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like watching and it picks from the whole catalogue, or browse by genre, country and year.

Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers

Loading movies…

What should I watch?