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| | The Perfect Shot | Film | The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper |
 | | All of his films move from perfect shot to perfect shot -- in his later films, there are sometimes two or three perfect shots in a single take, thanks to his slowly moving camera. |
 | | The main characters in the first scene (each scene of the film is composed of a single shot, fading in at the beginning, fading to fl at the end) are Master Wang and his two feuding flower girls, Jasmine and Crimson. |
 | | However, one film does not a retrospective make, so for their weekend matinees (which will run through March 7), the Grand Illusion will be showing six more of Hou's films, starting with A Time to Live, a Time to Die (1985), his first internationally acclaimed film. |
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