"Millennium Mambo" by Hou Hsiao-hsien won the Technical Grand Prize in Cannes in 2001. [File photo]

About the film:

The main character, Vicky, portrayed by actress Shu Qi narrates her life starting in 2011, 10 years earlier. She describes her youth and the story of her changing life at the beginning of the new millennium. She works as a hostess in a trendy bar. Vicky is torn between two men, Hao Hao and Jack, and her journey displays the parallel journey of the psyche and how one girl deals with her fleeting youth.