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Stephen Wadsworth's direction, as well as his translation and adaptation of the text, captures its comic wit and lends the story a sense of exuberance and farce that is sustained through the opera's three acts, complementing the singers' delivery...
Chungking has enough wit and pace to keep any mall crowd entertained. But it's the cinema verve of Wong's five films to date that makes them wholly his, whether he's doing gangster films (As Tears Go By, Fallen Angels), young-rebel dramas (Days of Being Wild) or kung-fu sagas (Ashes of Time, a film so beautifully bizarre it might be the first Martian-arts movie). The elements of his visual style: nightscapes (bars, beds, jukeboxes); sulky boys in white shirts; anomie punctuated by awful violence; murky lighting, as if scenes had been shot underwater and daubed...
...insecurities of the budding actress and her New Age quirks, like a bizarre predilection for chanting in times of stress, to devastating effect, cracking up the audience continuously. Despite her ditziness, she gets along because of her whining, her breasts, and, on occasion, a flash of brilliant wit...
...Chungking Express' should change that. The plot: two stories set in a late-night, neon Hong Kong. Or, actually, the same story, told twice with cunning variations: a cop thinks he's in love with one woman, then finds he?s drawn to another, more mysterious one. "Chungking has enough wit and pace to keep any mall crowd entertained," says Corliss. But with a number of exceptional films already to his credit, it's Wong himself that people should watch: "Wong made 'Chungking' in just 23 days, and the film?s mad-dash energy is nicely reflected in his quartet of stars...
...Wit and esprit are usually the first words one hears in conjunction with Oscar Wilde's plays, as if anything beyond that strains his talents. Naturally Wilde's frivolity is not devoid of substance, even though his lazy work habits allegedly kept his best work from ever being recorded. Victorian England's Rococo fop was not loathe to entertain a single meaningful thought--only, perhaps, to express it as such...