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SYNOPSIS __________
Plot:
In his first hypnotic backward glance at Hong Kong in 1960,
Wong Kar Wai creates a post-modern LA RONDE set in a fluorescent
labyrinth of cool desperation and unfulfilled need. Against
the echoing rhythms of period rumbas, DAYS OF BEING WILD tracks
a half dozen characters through their individual searches
for intimate connection. Collaborating for the first time
with cinematographer Christopher Doyle, Wong Kar Wai’s
restless visual imagination decorates this dreamlike fable
with characteristic muted extravagance. DAYS OF BEING WILD
offers an intoxicating cocktail of lush nostalgia and bitter
alienation equaled only by Wong Kar Wai’s subsequent
films.
Star crossed Asian film icon Leslie Cheung (FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE,
HAPPY TOGETHER) plays Luddy, a devastatingly handsome Hong
Kong lothario who seduces and forsakes women without compunction.
Abandoned at birth, Luddy’s self-destructive search
for love is really a Quixotic quest for a feeling of permanence
and a sense of identity. When Luddy beguiles lovely shop girl
Su Lizen, he unknowingly sets in motion a sequence of broken
hearts and unremembered promises that climaxes in naked obsession,
inadvertent self-discovery and shocking violence.
In possibly her most engaging performance, Maggie Cheung
(IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, AS TEARS GO BY) invests Su Lizen with
ethereal beauty and street level vulnerability. With a supporting
cast of Hong Kong cinema notables, including Andy Lau (FULLTIME
KILLER, AS TEARS GO BY) as Su’s policeman confessor,
and frequent Wong collaborator Tony Leung (IN THE MOOD FOR
LOVE, HAPPY TOGETHER), DAYS OF BEING WILD’s visionary
audacity and deep romantic conviction sustains and rewards
multiple viewings.
DETAILS__________
Studio:
KINO International
Release Date:
October 15, 2004 (Limited)
October 19, 2004 (DVD,
click here for DVD info)
RELATED LINKS__________
Official SIte: (Filmmaker, Wong Kar-wai)
wongkarwai.net --- CLICK
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