Saturday, July 18, 2015
Irony
I think that today's film title is meant to be ironic.
The last in a series of films by Wong Kar-Wai.
In which Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung try to reignite their relationship.
As expats in Argentina, they are united by place and culture. But that does not prove strong enough to hold them together.
While I was watching I wrote down the word "longing". The desire to have more, to possess more fully. That is the feeling of this piece.
It has some great tango music at its theme. When the titles played I remembered this music immediately. Tango. The Argentine variety.
The photography is wonderful here and the acting top notch. Cheung and Leung are big stars in the Asian cinema, mostly centered in Hong Kong. While Wong Kar-Wai, the director, is a wonderful film maker with limited but high quality output.
A 5 out of Netflix5.
