Word: cheung
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...Indeed, Zhao's as user-friendly as a Starbucks coffee shop. There's not the manufacture of Zhang Ziyi, the "wing collar" of Karen Mok, the Monroe of Shu Qi, or the candy-cute of Cecilia Cheung Pak-chi. She doesn't nurture distance with the audience. "She's just like a boy," says Wong Kar-wai. "She tells you everything directly, she talks from the heart. Very few people are born to be an actress, but she's one of them." Anyone for more wine...
...MOOD FOR LOVE So many affairs are like the one endured here by Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung: furtive, guilty, leaving the ache of remorse. Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai keeps the camera close to his actors--so close you can feel their heat and pain. Everyone is gorgeous and grieving in this threnody to erotic loss...
...Mood for Love So many affairs are like the one endured here by Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung: furtive, guilty, leaving the ache of remorse. Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai keeps the camera close to his actors - so close you can feel their heat and pain. Everyone is gorgeous and grieving in this threnody to erotic loss...
...girlfriend. That won Mok a best supporting actress award from the Hong Kong Film Academy. "She's not one of us and nobody knows what to do with her," says Kar-wai, Hong Kong's bard of nihilism and neon. "The Hong Kong Cantonese look at a young Maggie Cheung and see her as the girl next door. They look at Karen and can't identify." Mok has a monopoly on marginality in Hong Kong movies and she's adamant about its benefits: "Hong Kong directors want me to do roles they can't think of anyone else to play...
...Cheung and Alex Law, her director-producer partner, are the best scriptwriters in Hong Kong. And a film whose theme is extremes finds an ideal cinematographer in Peter Pau, working for the first time since Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. We get a gently pulsing Beijing nightscape saturated with promise; a lens that relaxes when it needs to, then agitates and finds its focus. Director Ang Lee thinks Pau is the best cinematographer anywhere, and on this evidence, the lensman rocks...