Cafe Lumiere
Cafe Lumiere
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Part of a tribute to the Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his birth, this luminous work marks the first time that Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien shot a film entirely in a foreign location and in a foreign language. Yoko, a freelance writer, becomes friends with Hajime, the proprietor of a bookstore, and the two spend a great deal of time together in coffee shops. One day Yoko tells her parents that she is pregnant and that the father of the child is Taiwanese. Her parents worry about her future and her choice to become an unmarried mother. Although he cannot articulate his feelings, Hajime is filled with love for Yoko. In Japanese with Hou Hsiao-hsien---Japan/Taiwan---2004---103 mins.

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  | Tom#31

An homage to the bend of a river in a megacity where two people love. Its a strange sort of love, its a friendship surrounded by research and the strains of their worlds. A nearly perfect film as it does very little but tell a simple story of a few people's lives and mainly just one young woman.

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