peteg's blog - noise - movies - 2011 10 14 2046

2046 (Are you still in the mood for love?) (2004)

Fri, Oct 14, 2011./noise/movies | Link

Wong Kar Wai closes out 1960s Hong Kong with an impressionistic sci fi romance anti-thriller, aesthetically not too far from Bladerunner. It follows on from In the Mood for Love and (more tenuously) Days of Being Wild, with Tony Leung Chiu Wai breaking a few more hearts on his way to the train terminus, albeit in a somewhat diffuse way; a surfeit of riches, perhaps. Ms Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ziyi Zhang) carries off the haughty femme fatale part of her role perfectly but struggles with the transition to human. I quite like the sound track by Shigeru Umebayashi.