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Continuing from 'In The Mood For Love', Chow Mo Wan, damaged by his brief affair with Maggie, shuns love for a series of one-night stands. Residing in a cheap hotel, Chow works away on a mysterious science fiction novel in which people travel to the year 2046...Product Identifiers
ProducerWong Kar-Wai
EAN5037899022955
eBay Product ID (ePID)168178822
Product Key Features
Film/TV Title2046
ActorZiyi Zhang, Faye Wong, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Takuya Kimura, Gong Li
DirectorWong Kar-Wai
Subtitle LanguageEnglish
FormatDVD
LanguageCantonese
Release Year2013
FeaturesWith Subtitles
GenreDrama, General
Run Time123 Mins
Additional Product Features
Certificate12A/12
Number of Discs1
Country/Region of ManufactureHong Kong
ReviewsThe Sunday Times - A sexy and breathtaking film about the tyranny of love and the torment of memory., Independent On Sunday - Gorgeous... one viewing isn't enough.
Additional InformationDirector Wong Kar-Wai's style reaches its fullest expression in his stunning film 2046. Picture-perfect period sets and costuming, finely wrought atmosphere, languid shots, glamorous cigarette smoke, amber lamplight, and allusions to film noir. 2046 is a meditation on memory, eroticism, love, loss, and longing which surpasses the director's beautiful, widely acclaimed IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000) in terms of formal ambition and visual sumptuousness. With its intriguing, layered structure, the film follows the adventures of Chow Wo Man (Tony Leung), a womaniser who is writing a science fiction novel about a future year in which all memories are suspended. The film shuttles between the BLADE RUNNER-like world of Chow's futuristic novel (complete with androids and other metaphors of emotional disconnection) and late-'60s Hong Kong--where Chow writes from a hotel room, and engages in relationships with a series of beautiful, complex women (including the luminous trio of Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, and Faye Wong). The film also journeys to Singapore and through the increasingly mysterious corridors of the protagonist's memory. 2046 resists tidy plot summaries with its disjointed, zigzagging construction. Yet, coupled with Wong's rich cinematography and dazzling formal techniques, it is as fluid, associative, and labyrinthine as memory itself. Sliding between keenly detailed realism (Wong's camera can capture the subtlest flicker of emotion in a characters' eyes) and lavish, expressionistic metaphor, the film is a deeply entrancing experience. Even given its jumbled, sometimes chaotic narrative, 2046 creates a poignant, emotionally charged, and richly rewarding experience.
Movie/TV Title2046
Sound sourceDolby Digital
ScreenwriterWong Kar-Wai