Days Of Being Wild
The Age
Thursday August 11, 2005
DVD & VIDEO REVIEW: Days of Being Wild, Hopscotch, 94 mins, M, drama, 1991 ****?
Wong Kar-wai's remarkable, lush, melancholy and mesmerising exploration of Hong Kong youth in 1960 has an outstanding performance from the late Leslie Cheung as a beautiful, narcissistic young man. Maggie Cheung and Carina Lau are two of the women who fall under his spell, and Andy Lau plays a police officer who, like everyone else in the film, wants what he cannot have. A film that anticipates elements, themes and characters from Wong's latest movie, 2046 - its famously enigmatic final scene, in particular, links the two. Days of Being Wild, a meditation on time, nostalgia and loss, also marks the start of the fruitful partnership between Wong and Australian cinematographer Christopher Doyle. DVD extras include: 2046 preview.
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