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...grossing film of all time. Corey Yuen's So Close is in the can. She's on screens now in Jeff Lau's Chinese Odyssey 2002, and has just finished working on Chinese director He Ping's Warriors of Heaven and Earth. She might even appear in Wong Kar-wai's as yet unfinished...
...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...
...heat was on. After two minor films, Wong Kar-wai knocked on Mok's door for the Chungking Express follow-up, Fallen Angels, in which she wore a wig and played Punkie, a semicrazed jilted 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...
...Stephen Chow's God of Cookery. She tucked away her plumage to create a visually impaired, bucktoothed, kick-ass noodle vendor, for which she was again nominated by the Academy. She was back in psycho mode for Four Faces of Eve, a movie in four dislocated parts shot by Kar-wai's noted cinematographer Chris Doyle. And in Sylvia Chang's Tempting Heart, she plays a bisexual with yearnings for both Hong Kong actress Gigi Leung and Japanese-Taiwanese actor Takeshi Kaneshiro. Mok may not get marquee roles but the technical precision and spontaneity she summons within her performances ensure...