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- Artificial Eye
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- Artificial Eye
- 280 mins approx.
- Wong Kar-Wai
- 15
- 18
- 16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
English
- Cantonese
- 3
- 2
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3 great films from the grandmaster
A collection of the three films - Ashes of time Redux, Chungking Express and Happy Together - three very different films but in style are cut from the same cloth - being directed by Wong Kar-We Firstly Ashes of Time Redux - being a completely restored and re-cut film as the original prints were deteriorating. I've never seen the original version so cannot give a comparison but the film is wonderful. The story which is (very loosely) taken from a martial arts novel The Eagle Shooting Horses concerns a swordsman-for-hire/tavern keeper Ouyang Feng (played by Leslie Cheung) and the characters who pass by during the course of a year. There are several sword-fights and soul-searching but ultimately we learn why Feng has isolated himself within this desert tavern. The colouring of the film has been artificially enhanced and looks stunning as do the landscapes - beautifully framed and filmed. Extras include a few interviews and a making-of documentry which is really more a featurette as for its 13-minute length it just contains a few soundbites from some of key players mainly recorded at Cannes in 2008 along with the whole of the 2-minute trailer - which also features separately as another extra! Skimped is the word that springs to mind. Chungking Express, filmed quickly during a break in the filming of Ashes of Time, couldn't be more different. Two stories of two potential romances - firstly between a cop and a drug-dealer, in the second another cop and a fast-food counter employee.You can also feel the chaos and confusion in the streets of hong kong on the eve of it being turned over to the chinese by the british. It is the Breathless for the 90s in my opinion. Cool, energetic and beautiful. Finally, Happy Together concerns two men, lovers, who have travelled to Argentina and desire to see the Iguazu waterfalls but fall out on the way and separate (having fallen out many times before). Strangers in a strange land, their paths cross again but is happiness possible when the relationship is essentially destructive. A great example of wong kar wais completely original narrative and flow but then again all the films prove this many times. Extras here include the Buenos Aries Zero Degree documentry - a 60 minute making-of which also has deleted scenes and out-takes. Three grand films from the grandmaster !
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