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...group up the 700-year-old Bell Tower and around the Drum Tower before heading to Guanghua Temple and over the Silver Ingot Bridge, spanning two of the area's lakes. Afterward, as well as visiting a local house, you'll be taken to a tea ceremony at Prince Gong's mansion. As for creature comforts en route, you just have to hope for the best. Our hostess's poker face relaxed when, on departure, I confessed that I had to answer an urgent call of nature. She'd actually installed plumbing in the house, she admitted, discreetly directing...
Lightheartedness and weightiness exist side by side in the movie and are switched on and off with the sudden gong of the bell signaling fire. The reality of the harshness of the job was again evoked when the firemen and crew reunited in Baltimore for the opening screening. An awards ceremony was held at the event, where many of their mentors were honored...
...over. In this cinematic short story?as delicate as Guy de Maupassant's, as terse and acute as Raymond Carver's?Wong touches on his old themes of romance and remorse. Chang Chen, looking like a younger Tony Leung in mustache and '60s clothing, gives a mature performance; but Gong Li is the eye magnet. As Hua the regal manipulator, she ages and diminishes, allowing the viewer to escort her on her appointment with tragedy. Give the lady a big hand...
...TIME: What about Gong Li? How did she prepare for her role? Wong: She played a gambler, so she went to Macau by herself to watch and prepare. She wouldn't take a production assistant with her. It was Macau undercover. She is very serious. She is very smart. She needs to have a lot of preparation...
...make a film with an actor or actress, there must be something that attracts you. I'm trying to exploit it, the quality that they might not even be aware of themselves. Normally, I don't ask people to act certain persons. It's just be you. Like Gong Li when I'm making Eros with her, I have kind of a picture what if she's a gambler, or a hustler, it would be very interesting. It's something inside her that you find...