81.   The film opens with a couple squabbling in the back seat of a garishly decorated taxi as it whizzes by their destination.

82.   The film opens with a framing device set out West at the turn of the century.

83.   The film opens with a problematic wedding celebration that establishes the themes Yang will explore for the next three hours.

84.   The film opens with a solo piano line.

85.   The film opens with Erika and Klaus fleeing Germany for the United States during the Nazi reign.

86.   The film opens with parachutes drifting into the desert.

87.   The film opens with shadowy shot of Stonehenge, and then some well-appointed and articulate men sitting in a lovely parlor sipping brandy and discussing murder and the occult.

88.   The film opens with the killing and then retraces the months leading up to it.

89.   The film opens with two college students having passionate sex.

90.   The films open Friday at the Quad Cinema in New York.