Three Times (最好的時光), Hsiao hsien Hou, 2005

There are three stories of women and men: in A Time for Love, set in 1966, a soldier searches for a young woman he met one afternoon playing pool; A Time for Freedom, set in a bordello in 1911, revolves around a singers longing to escape her surroundings; in A Time for Youth set in 2005 Taipei, a triangle in which a singer has an affair with a photographer while her partner suffers is dramatized. In the first two stories, letters are crucial to the outcome; in the third, its cell phone calls, text messages, and a computer file. Over the years between the tales, communication recedes as sexual intimacy becomes more likely and words freer