Ashes of Time Redux
À l’occasion de la publication du 200e numéro de la revue de cinéma 24 images, nous accueillons leurs auteurs pour une série de projections doubles qui promettent de nourrir adéquatement le cinéphile avide ! Au menu : Wong Kar-wai, Yasujirō Ozu, Tsai Ming Liang, Sofia Coppola… Chaque projection sera présentée par l’un des auteurs de la revue.
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Swordsman Ou-yang Feng was once a ruthless bounty hunter for whoever would pay. Now leaving the killing to others, he owns a desert inn where he spends the day pining after his brother’s wife. Among his current employees is his friend Huang Yao-shi, whose annual visits are one of his rare pleasures.
Wong Kar-wai
Born in Shanghai in 1958, Wong Kar-wai moved to Hong Kong as a child. For ten years, he was separated from his siblings, blocked in China due to the Cultural Revolution. This personal and collective upheaval undoubtedly permeated his work to come. After his studies, he became a production assistant, and a screenwriter for television. He joined Barry Wong's team, which introduced him to the film industry, and notably wrote the screenplay for Final Victory, directed by Patrick Tam, who also produced his directorial debut, As Tears Go By (1988). By the 1990s, Wong was working with some of Hong Kong's biggest stars. Exploring very different genres, he achieved both critical and popular success with films like Ashes of Time, Chungking Express, and Happy Together, cementing his place on the global stage. He solidified his reputation in the 2000s with In the Mood for Love and 2046. After a brief foray into American cinema (My Blueberry Nights), he reunited with his long-time collaborator Tony Leung, and Hong Kong history in The Grandmaster.
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REVIEW | The Perfect Storm: Wong Kar-wai’s “Ashes of Time Redux”
Eradicating bad memories of the moldy “My Blueberry Nights” in one fell swoop, Wong Kar-wai‘s gussied-up reissue of his 1994 “martial-arts action epic” (in quotes because it never actually feels like any of those things) is a reminder of why we fell in love with the Hong Kong auteur in the first place...
