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2046
2004
Wong Kar Wai's unofficial sequel to In the Mood for Love. Tales of love in the present, past and future. Read more
| Starring | Tony Leung, Ziyi Zhang, Maggie Cheung, Gong Li |
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| Director | Kar-Wai Wong, Wong Kar-wai, Wong Kar-Wai |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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2046
Wong Kar Wai's unofficial sequel to In the Mood for Love. Tales of love in the present, past and future.
| Starring | Tony Leung, Ziyi Zhang, Maggie Cheung, Gong Li |
|---|---|
| Director | Kar-Wai Wong, Wong Kar-wai, Wong Kar-Wai |
| Studio | PALISADES TARTAN |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | Cantonese |
| Subtitles | English |
| Released | DVD: 23 May 2005 Production year: 2004 |
| Format | DVD |
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In this disappointing quasi-sequel to In the Mood for Love, Tony Leung once again stars, now playing a writer living in a seedy Hong Kong hotel in the 1960s. Still obsessed with his earlier unconsummated love for married woman Maggie Cheung, he wallows in dreamy dalliances with three other women (Zhang Ziyi, Carina Lau, Gong Li), inspiring him to write sci-fi stories that, although set in the year 2046, detail his desire to recapture past memories. Jumbled continuity and inexplicable futuristic scenes that recall 2001: a Space Odyssey and Barbarella add to the pretentious airs and retro-chic graces director Wong Kar-Wai gives his dark-edged romance. The photography is stunning and the costumes are gorgeous, but they can't help this nostalgic tale of lost innocence over its many awkward narrative bumps.
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29 out of 30 people found this review helpful
Wong Kar Why did it take you so long?
It took Wong Kar Wai five years to be satisfied with 2046. He is said to have written over thirty diffferent versions of the screenplay and this is noticeable in the sheer complexity of the final cut that sometimes feels as though it is a hundred mini films tenuously linked to 'love' - Wong Kar Wai's long-held obsession. Brilliantly photographed by his constant collaborator Chris Doyle, 2046 is as insightful as much of his earlier work. I would recommend watching some of his more linear films such as the prequel 'in the mood for love, 'days of being wild' and the amazing 'chungking express' before watching this. It makes for a more satisfying film if you know he's been fretting over this stuff for not just years but decades.
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11 out of 15 people found this review helpful
long, drawn out and intensely boring
The description and the film are entirely seperate entities, and one does not reflect the other in any way.
The film is absurdly slow and at no point do you feel yourself warming to the characters or caring about what may or not happen to them. Frankly, this is an advantage because the plot is so mind-numbingly dull and the attempts at twists to make it interesting laughable.
Impossible to guess where the film is headed, if you can actually bear watch it that long. -
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