Nope, but the trailer looks interesting. Probably going to catch it next week. It’s playing in Shi Men Ding or at Spot on Chung Shan N. Road (http://www.spot.com.tw/)
The Taipei Times “review” is basically a translation of the synopsis from the website.
Ok, so here is my review (don’t put too much weight on it, I’m not a very skilled movie critic 
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It can’t have been bad because I was in my usual after-movie-daze when I left the theater. But I wouldn’t exactly call it special, either. It’s a nice, slow-paced movie (with one or two unnecessary or too long scenes) about a young couple in today’s Taipei. There are funny moments and tragic moments (however, Hsiao-Chin’s crush on the older business man is not one of the funny parts as the TT reporter wrote, rather one of the tragic ones). My favorite part was the one where A-Hong and the Japanese guy end up in some kind of film studio/museum at night. The whole trip there is sort of dream-like, and in one scene suddenly, a cat runs across the screen (if only I knew where that was supposed to be :s ). I liked the girl, I thought her character was very natural and her story seemed believable enough. However, if you ask me, A-Hongs character is a lazy and unattractive jerk (just as unattractive as the older business man and that weird French guy). His story didn’t seem too realistic, too, with his realtor boss being overly patient with him and that weird establishment where he worked his second job. I liked the Japanese guy best, he was really cute, and most of the scenes involving him were sort of dream-like. Unfortunately, I didn’t recognize many places and settings (apart from Chiufen), so don’t watch it out of pure Taipei nostalgia.
The movie was easy enough to understand, and the Chinese subtitles stayed on long enough to reconfirm that I had understood correctly and to put a sense to the Japanese dialogues. The only scenes I had problems with were those in Hsiao-Ching’s family because the Taiwanese dialogues were too fast to follow the subtitles (not too much, just three to four scenes, and I think I got the basic meaning).
Summary: Watch it if you like slow movies or movies about Taiwan and happen to come across it. But it’s not worth going out of your way to watch it.
HTH
Iris
[btw, I’m going to move this thread to the Culture & History forum because that’s where Chinese movies/movies about Taiwan go while Arts & Entertainment focus on non-Asian movies]
I must see this film. FYI, if you saw a cat running across the screen, that refers to the cat-people/mouse-people, dog-people/sheep-people dual dichotomy that exists in many societies. People who make films are cat people generally and that was likely a jab at the mice, and maybe even the dogs too.
Note we have a new member on Forumosa called Dangermouse. He envisions himself as a champion of the mice, I presume. Cat people and mouse people are both creatures of the night. Dogs and sheep rule the day and the dogs keep watch over the sheep. There was a discussion on Open Fourum covering this topic: