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...submitted each year, the Festival's programming chiefs, Thierry Fremeaux and Gilles Jacob, choose about 20 films to compete for the top prize, the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm), awarded on closing night by a nine- person Jury of directors, actors and other film folk. (Chinese auteur Wong Kar-wai is the 2006 Jury President.) Fremeaux also picks the entries for a sidebar program with the rather diffident name Un Certain Regard (A Certain Look). Other films, like tonight's Festival opener The Da Vinci Code, are shown out of competition. There's a selection called The Critics' Week...
...Wong Kar-wai's 2046, she plays a hardened gambler whose ego and heart get bruised one Christmas Eve. In Wong's contribution to the three-part film Eros, she is a notorious courtesan who loses her looks and luck over the course of two decades. In Memoirs of a Geisha, her first Hollywood film, she is Hatsumomo, tormentor of the heroine (Ziyi Zhang) and one of the greatest bitch goddesses since Bette Davis in her prime...
APPOINTED. WONG KAR-WAI, 47, Hong Kong director known for his exquisitely stylish and sentimental films; as jury president for the 2006 Cannes Film Festival in May; in Cannes. Wong, who won the festival's Best Director award in 1997 for Happy Together, is the first Chinese filmmaker to head the high-powered panel that chooses the winners at the glitzy global film festival...
Hong Kong's Wong Kar-wai believes two things: love hurts, and its pain can be beautiful to see. In Wong's 2000 romance In the Mood for Love, Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai circled each other in slo-mo for an hour and a half, and their almost-touching sparked more erotic heat than a dozen Jenna Jameson epics. 2046 is a kind of sequel, with Leung languidly courting a quartet of beauties: a prostitute (Ziyi Zhang), a vamp (Carina Lau), a gambler (Gong Li) and the elfin girl of his dreams (Faye Wong). That gives...
...Wong). That gives the director four times as many chances to let furtive glances and plaintive words collide-which they do, to subtly spectacular effect. It?s a story of love and loss, beautifully designed (by William Chang) and shot (mainly by Christopher Doyle) in the smoky, smoldering Wong Kar-wai style. 2046 is the kind of picture an intelligent viewer can approach and ask, ?Got a light...