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...figure who will win some award and who, by their absence, will be shut out. We noted that Salles and Garcia Bernal were among the missing, as were the stars of ?Shrek 2,? which one trade paper had touted as the big winner. And where, one wondered, was Wong Kar-wai, writer-director of the Festival?s most eagerly awaited film, ?2046,? and his luminous cast: Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Faye Wong, Carina Lau and Tony Leung Chiu-wai? Could it be that - just as the print of ?2046? arrived too late for its first screening - the stars and directors...
...movie becomes a kind of liberal cornography, but García Bernal commands the screen with a winsome power. The main Dagger doll is Zhang Ziyi. Four years after Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, she has become the petite embodiment of Chinese beauty and resilience. Her competition film was Wong Kar-wai's 2046; she plays a 1960s-era mistress with a panoply of pouts, flirtations and surrendering smiles. It's a spectacular star performance in a rapturous ode to love and loss set in China's past, present and future. The year is still young, but - in its passion...
Shimmering with vibrant, romantic color, Wong Kar-wai’s newest film sprinkles solidarity into the vast and anonymous world of 1960s Hong Kong. In stumbling upon love when they expected it the least and needed it the most, two young professionals find each other living in the same apartment building and struggling with the same doubts about their spouses. The inspiration for Lost in Translation, this symphony of detail moves slowly and beautifully through the foundations of longing. Tickets $6. 7 p.m. Harvard Film Archive...
Shimmering with vibrant, romantic color, Wong Kar-wai’s newest film sprinkles solidarity into the vast and anonymous world of 1960s Hong Kong. In stumbling upon love when they expected it the least and needed it the most, two young professionals find each other living in the same apartment building and struggling with the same doubts about their spouses. The inspiration for Lost in Translation, this symphony of detail moves slowly and beautifully through the foundations of longing. Tickets $6. 7 p.m. Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street...
...When the time came to parlay his local celebrity into a film career (routine for Taiwan's idol factory), he perversely shunned roles in safe, saccharine vehicles, insisting instead on quirkier character parts. He won acclaim in his second movie for his role as a lovelorn cop in Wong Kar-wai's 1994 cult hit, Chungking Express...