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Yi Yi

The extraordinary, internationally embraced Yi Yi (A One and a Two . . .), directed by the late Taiwanese master Edward Yang, follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Whether chronicling middle-age father NJs tentative flirtations with an old flame or precocious young son Yang-Yangs attempts at capturing reality with his beloved camera, the filmmaker deftly imbues every gorgeous frame with a compassionate clarity. Warm, sprawling, and dazzling, this intimate epic is one of the undisputed masterworks of the new century.

"This is a grand choral work, with a panoptic majesty and an emotional amplitude worthy of George Eliot or late Beethoven, whose Song of Joy is quoted with the greatest delicacy in Kaili Pengs piano score." - Cine-File

"It absorbed me wholeI felt like I had lived it, and not just because of its nearly three-hour runtime. My uncle says we live three times as long since man invented movies, one character says. It means movies give us twice what we get from daily life. Yi Yi contains the life cycle through its cast of characterspregnancy, birth, childhood, a wedding, and a funeralbut its the way Yang lingers with each one of them that makes this movie feel so lived-in." - Kristen Yoonsoo Kim

"A marvel of delicacy and humor." - Rolling Stone

"Intricately nuanced, lovingly crafted ... and decidedly wry in tone." - bbc.com

"Yang takes the long view, transforming the ingredients of family melodrama into a serene, generous, comic vision of our tangled urban lives." - Newsweek