Metrograph Pictures is thrilled to celebrate a record-smashing two-week straight sold-out run of their newly released 4K restoration of Hou Hsiao-hsien‘s 2001 Cannes Palme d'Or nominee Millennium Mambo following its theatrical launch on Friday, December 23. Playing exclusively at Metrograph theater in Manhattan and online on Metrograph At Home, additional screenings have been added for the widely lauded restoration release for the month of January due to overwhelming demand.
A stylish and seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, Hou's much-misunderstood marvel stars Shu Qi (The Assassin) as an aimless bar hostess drifting away from her blowhard boyfriend and towards Jack Kao's suave, sensitive gangster. Structured as a flashback to the then-present from the then-future of 2011, it's a transfixing trance-out of a movie, drenched in club lights, ecstatic endorphin-rush exhilaration, and a nagging undercurrent of ennui. A Metrograph Pictures release.
