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PASSION

Today's Wong Kar Wai's film was

A Fei jingjyuhn / Days of Being Wild

A philanderer keeps two girls on a string while, at the same time trying to convince his foster mother to tell him the identity of his real mother.

Here the relationships between men and women are explored at many levels.

The women, in turn, have a bunch of issues they work out with two other men respectively.

One of them is Andy Lau which makes the film special for me. Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Rebecca Pan, Carina Lau, Leung Fung-ying and Jacky Cheung (the rep company) fill out the cast. I am writing these all out so that I can begin to get the names straight.

Wong's touches are all over the film. This, like yesterday's film, was held back from the US for ten years. But it is restored beautifully.

The cinematography is superb. His first film with his long time cinematographer Christopher Doyle.

This is a very very sexy movie. It has a strong gay sensibility although all the couplings are straight. There is one guy on guy scene though that reeks of homoeroticism. Later Wong will make an all out gay film but his touch shows here.

That should be a plus for all preferences. Languid is a good word for the music and most of the scenes.

There is one shot that goes down a street into a RR station, up the stairs and into a bar where our anti-hero is finishing off the night with a cocktail. Amazing.

This is a five out of NetflixFive.

Labels: films