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...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...
...Benjamin G. Edelman, Emily C. Ferguson, John N. Friedman, Peter W. Graham, Jennifer H. Hepps, Michael A. Hill, Robert S. Hill, Susie Y. Huang, Cendri A. C. Hutcherson, Sahir S. Islam, Derek J. Kaufman, Vera Keller, Yuni Kim, David D. Kornhaber, Timothy B. Lautz, Jonathan L. Lee, Janice M. Leung, Conor M. Liston, Rochelle P. Lundy, Catherine A. Marlantes, Nicole M. Martin, Deirdre A. Mask, Philip J. Matchett, Ethan M. Merlin, Sarah E. Moss, Alec J. Nevala-Lee, Emily N. Ogden, Joshua L. Passman, Parag A. Pathak, Devon R. Quasha, Katherine E. Sharaf, Timothy F. Sohn, Pauline Tsai, Brooke...
...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 she often ends up stealing a film...
...roles tended to place her as the young love interest of a middle-aged man (Jackie Chan, Gorgeous) or a destroyer of older men (Eric Tsang, My Loving Trouble). But she was missing out on some big roles. Taiwan director Sylvia Chang chose then Hong Kong It-Girl Gigi Leung over Shu Qi for Tempting Heart in 1999, fearing the growth of the character from teenage girl to mature woman would be too much of a stretch for Shu Qi. The actress, Chang feared, couldn't successfully communicate innocent. For good reason. "At 13, I'd done what most people...
...mother who deserted him; it won Cheung a Hong Kong Film Award for best actor. In Ashes of Time, cast as a martial-arts scoundrel, he ably anchored a film of top Chinese stars and rapturous visual splendor. In the not-so-gay drama Happy Together he taught Tony Leung Chiu-wai how an actor prepares...