Film

Yi Yi 2000

Directed by Edward Yang

  • Drama
  • 174 min
  • NR

We never live the same day twice.

Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.

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Prestige, contemplative, earnest and contemporary.

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