| Director | Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, Wong Kar-wai |
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| Genre | anthology film, drama film |
| Runtime | 104 min |
| Country | France, Italy, United States |
| Box office | $1.5 million |
;The Hand In the 1960s, high-end call girl Miss Hua is visited by shy dressmaker's assistant Zhang, who has come to take her measurements. He hears the sounds of sex as he waits in her living room, and after her client leaves and he is summoned to her room, Miss Hua sees that he is aroused. Hua orders him to take his pants off, telling him she will supply him with an aid to his memory so he will think about her while designing her clothes, and manually pleasures him. Zhang falls in love with Hua, but their different classes are an insurmountable, and he yearns for her from afar through the years as he creates dresses for her, enduring even as Hua falls in stature.
;Equilibrium In 1955, advertising executive Nick Penrose is under enormous pressure at work. He tells his psychiatrist Dr. Pearl about a recurring dream of a beautiful woman he does not know, as they discuss the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in the erotic dream. However, the doctor is distracted from Nick's account of the dream by someone outside the window of his office, whose attention he is trying to get. After the session, Nick awakes at home and is greeted by his wife, who is also the woman he was dreaming about.