A climax which is in equal parts real, surreal, melodramatic and inexplicably mysterious. A future classic.
TIME OUT

Careful, lyrical visual sensibility…long shots that are at once naturalistic and meticulously composed. You feel that Mr. Tsai is not staging the action so much as observing it, allowing small gestures and funny-sad coincidences to resonate like the words in a poem…It’s worth waiting for…he is one of those filmmakers whose visions, once encountered, are hard to shake, a rare director who seems, even at this late date, to be reinventing the medium and rediscovering the world.
THE NEW YORK TIMES