Nothing to criticise here, really. It reintroduces characters from What Time Is It There and sets up the events of The Wayward Cloud, and it does its job well. I like it a lot.

Lovely. The more Tsai I watch the more clear it is to see his themes of alienation with the urban environment you find yourself living in. It's a minor work by Tsai, but even a minor Tsai is still really darn enjoyable.

Something like Truffaut's Antoine et Collette, between Tsai's "What Time is it There?" and "The Wayward Cloud".

A perfect little bridge between What Time Is It There? and The Wayward Cloud... picking up the characters from the former and setting up situations (the water shortage, Hsiao-kang's porn career) for the latter. It's also fitting that Tsai would follow up WTIIT (a sort of tribute to The 400 Blows) with a short, like Truffaut did with "Antoine et Collette". I don't rate this as highly as Tsai's feature-lengths, because I feel like his work needs a little time to really get under your skin.